Pedagogical Conditions of Forming the Professional Culture of Future Music Teachers in the Course of Instrumental and Performing Training

Abstract

The paper highlights the main mechanisms designed to contribute to the effective process of forming the professional culture of future music teachers in the course of instrumental and performing training. The need to raise the level of the future teacher’s professional culture is substantiated. The abovementioned need is stipulated by the growing requirements for general cultural training of secondary school students, as well as the change of general educational paradigms, which fix the transition from mass-reproductive forms and methods of teaching to individual-creative ones. The professional culture of the music teacher is defined as a complex integrative personality formation, considered in the unity of musical and pedagogical components, which reflects his/her professional and personal qualities. The concept of “professional culture of the future music teacher” is considered through the lens of musical and pedagogical activity and its results. The peculiarities of the functioning of the studied phenomenon in the educational process at the general cultural level are revealed, where it acts as a factor that ensures the teacher’s cultural activity and his/her students; on the general pedagogical, which is determined by the requirements of the profession; and at the music-pedagogical level, which reflects the specifics of the music teacher’s professional activity. It is determined that the indicator of the level of the studied culture is the quality of the aforesaid activity, and the professional culture as such, reflected in the music teacher’s activity, acts as a measure of the development of his/her creative forces and abilities necessary for the selected professional sphere. It is substantiated that forming future music teachers’ professional culture is the most effective in the course of instrumental and performing training. The pedagogical conditions of forming the professional culture of future music teachers are characterized, namely: actualization of the cultural and educational potential ofinstrumental and performing training; future teachers’ mastering the skills of musical and pedagogical communication; educational and methodological support for forming the professional culture of future music teachers in the course of instrumental and performing training.