An Experimental Model of the System of Children’s Musical Enlightenment: The Initial Level

Culture today is experiencing a state defined by most researchers as “critical”, “threshold”, “moral or spiritual apocalypse”. One of the main problems is the devaluation of spiritual values, which leads to the destruction of the connection between society and academic culture.

The multi-channel and all-consuming system of mass communications (media) has begun to play an increasingly decisive role in modern society. As an alternative to spontaneous dissemination of information flows, the concepts of “media culture” and “media art” arise, which makes it possible to combine aesthetic searches with modern media, the best opportunities of which should be used in the field of academic culture dissemination. That is why the issues of artistic enlightenment, professional dissemination of academic culture in the new information space, the focus of spiritual, moral and aesthetic guidelines, as well as the training of potential musical educators within the initial professional stage are so relevant today. The proposed experimental model of children’s musical enlightenment is aimed at teaching the popularization of academic music, disseminating acquired knowledge about music in the context of related arts, on the basis of a unified three-stage educational music enlightening system.

The purpose of the presented project is to develop and implement the model on the basis of the existing primary state music education (of preschool, school and post-school professionally-oriented levels) using the achievements of media technologies. The presented model will contribute to the most harmonious development of individual creative abilities of students, the formation of their active life position, and the provision of their primary professional and activity competencies in the field of musical enlightenment, which can help optimize primary art education.

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