The development of school-children personality ethnic through kanklės teaching at the music school

Ethnic culture – an important part of common and musical culture. Ethnic, musical culture is a presumption of national individuality, not vanishing value, raising and maintaining humanity, transferring cumulative experience. Ethnics raising, in a process of playing with kanklės, should be effective, should be used practically and must close children to ethnic musical culture more and more. The theory and practice of pedagogy did not research the role of Lithuanian folksong much; there is not much common information about the importance of Lithuanian ethnic culture, which helps to develop children’s national identity, so we hope to forward a development of spiritual and educative personality in this work. The aim of this work is to examine the possibilities of pedagogic effect during the kanklės lesson by developing nationally conscious personality. The object of the work – the development of personality ethnic through kanklės. The hypothesis of the work – the development of personality ethnic becomes more effective when you put more Lithuanian folk plays into teaching repertoire and give lack of information on ethnic culture during the process of kanklės teaching. The nonfiction analysis and pedagogical research were carried out at three stages since 2003 till 2006. During the pedagogical experiment in Alytus music school were formed and examined experimental and auditorial children groups from kanklės class. The questionnaire method was also practiced in other Lithuanian music schools, all school-children and pedagogues from kanklės classes were questioned. For the conformation of a research hypothesis the program of the children ethnic development through kanklės teaching was formulated in which there was much more teaching material on Lithuanian ethnic culture (the traditions of Lithuanian folk, customs, the history of costume, the presentation of regional features and others). During the formative experiment, according to this program, work with children from experimental group was developed in order to effective their ethnic musical education and kanklės playing. The results of experimental research proves that using the experimental program, extending the context and supplementing with the teaching material about Lithuanian ethnic culture and plenty of Lithuanian folk music, the development of children personality ethnic becomes more effective. The positive overview, evaluation and attitude towards Lithuanian ethnic culture of school-children are developed. For school-children playing with kanklės becomes more important in the context of ethnic musical culture.Švietimo akademijaVytauto Didžiojo universiteta