Objectives and competences

The objective of the course is for students to deepen music didactic knowledge and to effectively and qualitatively use it in analysing and evaluating the performance of musical activities and activities of musical literacy in music education lessons in the first and second cycle of primary school. Students learn to solve complex musical-didactical problems and practical challenges in various contexts.

Content (Syllabus outline)

• A teacher's role and personality: communication, monitoring and work analysis, reflection, action research. • Organisation of music education: from sound and tonal qualities to movement, rhythm, and dance; singing, harmonizing and playing melodic instruments; understanding musical forms. • Musical abilities and skills, musical giftedness, talent, creativity. The creative process of music education. • Musical evaluation and assessment. • Analysing and evaluating the performance of musical activities, content and activities of musical literacy. • Selected topics (music, historical development, musical instruments, children's folk song, author's song for children, musical forms, tempo, dynamics, agogics). • Solving more complex musically-didactical problems in different contexts.

Learning and teaching methods

• lectures • lab work • homework assignments • musical performance • micro teaching • observation of class work • class work • evaluation of musical performances • reflection

Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to • plan musical lessons, • choose methods for all musical activities, • use the acquired knowledge for a practical application in the field of musical lessons, • to evaluate and assess students' work and their own work, • use information technology, • to solve musically-didactical problems in various contexts and present them with aesthetic and linguistic expertise, using the Slovene literary language.

Intended learning outcomes - transferable/key skills and other attributes

Readings

• Kovačič, B. (ur.) (2024). Sodobne raziskave o poučevanju glasbe v Sloveniji. 1. izd. Maribor: Univerza v Mariboru, Univerzitetna založba. https://press.um.si/index.php/ump/catalog/book/850, https://dk.um.si/IzpisGradiva.php?id=87368 • Burnard, P. in Murphy, R. (2013). Teaching music creatively. New York: Routledge. • Borota, B. (2015). Glasbene dejavnosti in vsebine. Koper: Univerzitetna založba Annales. • Borota, B. in Kovačič Divjak, A. (2015). Dejavnosti glasbenega opismenjevanja. Koper: Univerzitetna založba Annales. • Sicherl-Kafol, B. (2015). Izbrana poglavja iz glasbene didaktike. Ljubljana: Pedagoška fakulteta.

Prerequisits

Passed exams in Music Pedagogical Practicum and Music Didactics I.