Δημιουργία και πειραματική εφαρμογή ενός μοντέλου διδασκαλίας της ιστορίας της μουσικής στη δευτεροβάθμια εκπαίδευση

Abstract

The history of music constitutes one of the important areas of study in the course of many educational programs in music studies at various educational environments and levels. The teaching of the history of music presents several particularities and difficulties, a point that is expressed clearly in the multifaceted speculation that appears in the relevant bibliography, and as such it is worthy of further study. As was discovered during the relevant bibliographic search for the present study, within the international music education community, and indeed at various educational environments and under different perspectives, there exists a strong interest in the teaching of the history of music. Among other things, speculation has occurred at a general theoretical level, especially about its inclusion in tertiary education, general secondary education, and in the training of music performers. Within the framework of the above speculation, serious efforts are being made in the search for methods for more effective means of teaching the history of music, in the form of practical concepts for implementation. The pedagogic learning environment utilized in the present experimental study was the public general secondary education in Greece, in particular the 9th grade. Hence, particular emphasis was also awarded to this educational level in the process of the bibliographic search. Although several references were located in regard to the teaching of the history of music in secondary education, the bibliographic search also established an absence of trends toward the systemization of the process of teaching in the form of specific teaching models, strategies, and methods. The sole exception that concerns tertiary education is a model developed and qualitative study conducted by V. L. B. Freire. Although no other models were located, including those for secondary education, as the investigator maintains nevertheless that there is a need for a search in this direction, as well as for the creation of such models. Additionally, the teaching of the history of music in general, and in secondary education in particular, has so far rarely constituted the subject of experimental research or even of scholarly activity within the field of research in music pedagogics internationally. The main goal of the present study was the development and experimental implementation of a model for the teaching of the history of music in secondary education. Within this framework, among other things it was also investigated whether, and to what degree, the implementation of this model facilitated the achievement of 9th-grade general public school students in the history of music. As stated above, during the bibliographical search, no similar experimental research in the field of teaching the history of music in secondary education was located. Therefore, it appears that this is the first study of its type. […]