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As part of the Music Culture course, teacher education students at the Faculty of Teacher Education of the University of Zagreb are obliged to attend classical and jazz music concerts organized by the faculty as a part of the Music Scene of the Faculty of Teacher Education.The paper aims to examine the attitudes and opinions …

Listening to music is a dominant activity in the Music Culture teaching in which students develop critical thinking about aesthetic value of music. Teachers mostly use CDs and DVDs as important tools during the music listening activity despite the development of technology. On today’s classes we meet digitally literate students born in a completely digitalized …

Initial education prepares teachers to teach Music Culture in the lower grades of elementary school in the following areas: singing, playing, listening and musical creativity. The paper discusses the process of acquiring musical competences to perform music activities in elementary schools with regard to the learning outcomes of music lessons during a five-year teacher study. …

The conceptual changes in primary-school Music teaching have not considerably refl ected the manners and criteria of assessment. The contemporary tendencies like familiarization of teaching with pupils’ needs, the desire to enable the development of competent music connoisseurs through the open model, the possibility of active music engagement especially in extracurricular music activities; have not …

This paper examines the attitudes of third graders to music education and to music in general. Two variables have been selected – gender and school type (teaching and training schools) due to their impact on pupils’ attitudes. The results confirm that pupils have a positive attitude toward music education and music in general. Furthermore, female …