ATTENDING CULTURAL EVENTS AND ACQUIRING CULTURAL CAPITAL IN THE CONTEXT OF DEVELOPING MUSIC COMPETENCIES OF FUTURE TEACHERS FOR TEACHING MUSIC CULTURE IN LOWER GRADES

Authors: Tamara Jukić Sviben, Martina Mičija Palić

Paper categorization: Original scientific paper

DOI: https://doi.org/10.38003/sv.72.2.7 

Paper: 2023. Vol. 72, Br. 2. – T.- Sviben, M.- Palic

Abstract:

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 of teacher education students about the importance
and necessity of attending cultural events, especially concerts, in order to conduct music culture classes in
primary education successfully and effectively.
The results show that students who, to a greater extent, believe that it is necessary for teachers to actively
attend classical music concerts in order to conduct music culture lessons successfully are the ones who
listen to classical music more often themselves. There were positive correlations found between the attitude
that, for the successful teaching of music culture, teachers must actively attend all kinds of musical events
and the frequency of listening to classical music. There is also a statistically significant difference in the
agreement with the statement that, in order to teach music culture classes successfully, it is necessary for
teachers to actively attend all kinds of musical events, depending on whether students attend only classical
music concerts or not.
It is crucial to make students of teacher education studies culturally aware during their studies so that the
significance of the perception and reception of culture, especially the musical one, is developed and
encouraged in their future students.

Key words:

concerts, musical culture, primary school, teaching, teachers.