RELATION BETWEEN MUSIC EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE AND FAMILY CULTURAL- EDUCATIONAL CLIMATE OF PRESCHOOL TEACHER STUDENTS
Abstract
The level of musical culture of preschool teacher college students, which greatly affects their competence as future professionals, is often influenced by the existence of previous music education, as well as some aspects of the cultural and educational climate of their families. This paper presents the results of the research that was aimed at examining the relation between the previous formal music education, as well as any kind of informal musical experience and the level of cultural and educational climate of the family of students, future preschool teachers. The research also examines the significance of socio-demographic factors (parents' educational background, place of birth) for the cultural and educational climate of the family and existence of the previous music education and musical experience.
The research was conducted on a sample of 225 students in the second and third years of study at the Preschool Teacher Training College in Novi Sad by apllying the non-experimental method, technique of interviewing and scaling and using the instrument devised especially for this research. The results showed that there is a significant correlation between musical background and the level of family`s cultural-educational climate, as well as that both level of parents' education and place of birth of students are significant predictors for cultural and educational climate of the family, and indicators of the existence of music education or early musical experience of students.
This information can lead to designing appropriate programs to increase the competence of preschool teachers, so that they can provide well-timed music stimulation for preschool children. In this way, preschool teachers could potentially indirectly compensate the low cultural and educational climate of the families with lower social, economic and educational status, by influencing the quality of the musical activities of children in kindergarten.
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