“Folk Music Culture” as an Academic Discipline in the System of Secondary Vocational Education: Problems and Perspectives

Abstract

Folk music culture is one of the significant disciplines within the system of intermediate professional education which at the present time does not have any scholarly-methodological support. The article examines the crucial issues connected with the actualization of the present training course, such as: the absence of contemporary training manuals and compilations of materials for demonstration and, most importantly, — a presently out-of-date methodological directive, according to which folk music culture is examined as the sum total of folk musical texts. The author substantiates the relevance of the working-out of a different culturological approach towards the study of a discipline that would provide the perception of its object as an integral multidimensional phenomenon. For the actualization of this initiative, a thematic plan is suggested, which is comprised on the basis of the author’s own pedagogical initiative within the framework of the academic workload that is designated by the operative educational standards. Upon its formation, the students’ requests and interests revealed as the result of the sociological survey of the student body of the Kaluga Region S.I. Taneyev Music College were taken into account. In the conclusion, the ways of solving the problem of the tutorial-methodological maintenance with the directedness on the opportunities of the contemporary digital education environment are determined.

Keywords: folk music culture, intermediate professional education, culturological approach, intercultural communication, training manual