International Journal of Music and Performing Arts

Digital Environment in Music School Education
Ewa Parkita, Ph.D.; Paweł A. Trzos, Ph.D.

Abstract
This article refers to the use of digital resources and multimedia on early stages of innovative music education. The innovative aspect within the text is mainly discussed in context of audiation. Theory of universal music learning, according to Gordon, is mostly directed at teachers. The text presents the possibility of implementing E. E. Gordon's theory into professional training of early music education teachers at Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland. The author recognises the importance of shaping research and musical instrument technical (including interdisciplinary) competences of future teachers as they help students use not only practical (pedagogical), but also empirical work of E.E. Gordon's theory. Additionally, the text presents the reports from research on the application of E.E. Gordon's Theory, carried out by students of early school and innovative music education at Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland. Music Fairytale “e–Audiation Songbook” is the first interdisciplinary project, which is the result of cooperation between music pedagogy, computer science and mechatronics students. Despite the fact that the application has not been finished yet, it is going to be implemented, tested, assessed and evaluated (in terms of content and achievement). The initiation of such activities gives ground for long-lasting pedagogical research on academic instruction quality of future early school music education teachers, when it comes to organizing their knowledge and skills via use of E.E. Gordon's theory in Poland

Full Text: PDF     DOI: 10.15640/ijmpa.v4n2a5