Attitudes of Students towards Music Classes in Primary and Secondary Schools

U radu su istraženi stavovi učenika osnovnih škola i gimnazija prema nastavi Glazbene kulture i Glazbene umjetnosti s obzirom na njihovu spol, dob, obiteljsko okruženje, dodatnu glazbenu poduku, preferiranje klasične glazbe i određenih aktivnosti nastave glazbe. Tijekom istraživanja primijenjen je upitnik općih podataka te upitnik za ispitivanje stavova učenika prema predmetu Glazbena kultura/Glazbena umjetnost. Istraživanje je provedeno na uzorku od 245 učenika trećeg, četvrtog, sedmog i osmog razreda osnovne škole te gimnazije. Rezultatima ovoga istraživanja potvrđeno je kako gimnazijalci, u odnosu na učenike osnovne škole, provode više vremena dnevno slušajući glazbu. Učenici koji preferiraju klasičnu glazbu i učenici čiji roditelji slušaju klasičnu glazbu imaju pozitivnije stavove prema Glazbenoj kulturi/Glazbenoj umjetnosti. Rezultatima istraživanja potvrđeno je da mlađi učenici imaju pozitivnije stavove prema nastavi glazbe, u odnosu na starije učenike. Slušanje je aktivnost nastave glazbe koju učenici najviše preferiraju, dok najmanje pozitivne stavove imaju prema glazbenom stvaralaštvu. Nisu potvrđene povezanosti dodatne glazbene poduke i utjecaj spola na stavove prema nastavi glazbe.The paper reviews the attitudes of elementary and high school students towards the teaching of Music Culture and Musical Arts in terms of their sex, age, family environment, additional music instruction, preference for classical music, and certain activities of music teaching. A general questionnaire and a questionnaire for examining the attitudes of students according to the subject of Music Culture / Musical Arts were used during the research. The survey was conducted on a sample of 245 students of the third, fourth, seventh, and eighth grades of elementary school and third and fourth grades of high school. The results of this research confirm that high school students spend more time daily listening to music than primary school students. Pupils who prefer classical music and students whose parents listen to classical music have more positive attitudes towards subjects of Music Culture / Musical Art. The results of the research confirm that younger students have more positive attitudes towards music teaching than older students. Students have the most positive attitudes towards listening, and the least positive attitudes toward musical creation. No correlation between additional music instruction and sex influence on attitudes towards music teaching were confirmed