Methodological Readiness of Musical Art Master’s Degree Students: A Theoretical Research

Abstract

Modern trends of social development, processes of science modernization along with information and technologies integrations in education, make the search of ways to improve the scientific training of musical art masters timely relevant, which involves a thorough mastery of the scientific basics of musical art and more to the point-methods of their knowledge in the institution of higher music-pedagogical education. The scientific training of master's degree students of musical art includes methodological training, which is based not only on knowledge of the theory and methodology of musical art but also on scientific methods of their study. Master's degree students should know the scientific innovations of music performance and music pedagogics, to analyze, synthesize, generalize, systematize, structure, classify, conduct experimental research, interpret, evaluate, use them in their work with students, etc. The methodological readiness of master's degree students of musical art should be regarded from the standpoint of personally-oriented, activity and competence approaches, i.e., it is a professional-personal entity based on the motivation to such a kind of activity, a complex of methodological knowledge, skills, and psychological capacities to be applied into practice. In order to carry out the process effectively, we have defined the structure of methodological readiness of master's degree students of musical art which includes: motivation-and-need, informationalcognitive, science-and-activity, reflexive-evaluative and self-improving components; certain criteria, factors and levels of methodological readiness formation of musical art masters have been considered. For the sake of master's degree students' methodological training improvement, there were developed and theoretically substantiated the content, forms and methods of such training in the process of instrumental and vocal training during the Master's degree course.

Integrative model formation of a musical art teacher’s professional training by means of innovation technologies

“…The issue of the music art teacher's professional training cannot be discovered without solving the question of the organization of his methodological culture, which researchers consider as a complex multilevel structure. It should be mentioned that this structure includes special subject-based, general scientific and philosophical knowledge, special learning aptitudes and skills that form the ability to identify and create universal strategic forms of teaching (OVCHARENKO et al, 2019); culture of thinking, specific to the particular field of education, based on methodological knowledge, skills, ability to reflect, scientific substantiation, critical reflection and creative application of certain concepts, forms and methods of cognition, management and design of pedagogical theory and practice (LAVRENTIEVA, 2016); holistic formation that helps transform methodological experience into the achievements of future specialists, a factor in the development of their personality, creative thinking and the development of a scientific worldview (WEGNER, 2007). In the scientific works of researchers in the field of art education, the methodological culture of a music teacher is an integrative quality of personality, which includes interest in the methodology of musical pedagogy, understanding its importance; acquirement of professionally oriented methodological knowledge; mastering the means, methods of conducting research scientific and pedagogical activities (ABDULLIN, 2006); the ability to think systematically, independently compare and contrast different points of view, to express one's position, scientifically substantiate and professionally defend it in the field of pedagogy of musical education (RASTRIGINA, 2016).…”

Professional Performance and Methodological Training of Future Musical Art Teachers: A Theoretical Approach

“…The works of the Ukrainian researchers O. Shcholokova (2016), T. Bodrova (2017), O. Rebrova (2017), N. Ovcharenko, O. Matveieva, O. Chebotarenko, and N. Koehn (2019), and others are of considerable interest for the development of theoretical foundations of music students' methodological training. The post-study states: the scientific training of students aspiring to obtain their Master's degree in musical art includes methodological training, which is based not only on the theory and methodology of musical art but also on scientific methods of their study.…”