education creativity musical activity music experience self-expression
How to Cite
Girdzijauskienė, R. (2003) “The Directions of Junior School Children’s Creativity Development through Music Activity”, Acta Paedagogica Vilnensia, 11, pp. 116–129. doi:10.15388/ActPaed.2003.11.9604.
The Directions of Junior School Children's Creativity Development through Music Activity
Abstract
In this article are pointed the most significant junior school children’s creativity development directions: accumulation of music experience (presentation of music knowledge, development of the ability to arrange, interpret and evaluate music, stimulation of music experience), encouragement of self-dependence, stimulation of creative self-expression. The results of pedagogical experiment organized in this direction showed that in the experimental groups the children who interpret expressively and purposefully arrange accurately and are non-stereotyped increased double the adequacy and originality of music evaluation improved a lot. The number of children who often experience joy, satisfaction, admiration emotions increased double as well. Both boys and girls • music activity became mare fluent, flexible, original. In general the number of very creative children increased double and the number of not creative children decreased three times.