Kankliavimas kaip tautiškumo ugdymo būdas

Abstract

The educational reform is treated in Lithuania as part of social culture. The school is among a number of institutions that should contribute to preserving our nation's arts. School learning is a really versatile and important process. Its success depends on a great variety of learning factors. The impact of playing traditional instruments (like the kankles, panpipes, traditional flutes, etc.) on schoolchildren's personality development has considerable importance. Therefore, it is purposeful to start accustoming children to ethnical music from their early childhood. In order to preserve and foster Lithuanian ethnical culture, the issue of continuity in playing traditional kankles music has recently gained importance. The objectives of this article are to analyse the present situation of playing traditional kankles music at schools of general education, to investigate attitudes of children learning in 2nd - 7th school years towards traditional kankles music and to examine music and ethnic culture teachers' readiness to teach playing the kankles. A general overview of survey results indicates that more than half of the pupils learning at Lithuanian schools of general education would like to learn playing the traditional kankles. Despite the very positive results of the surveys conducted, only a little more than one fifth of all Lithuanian schools have teaching of traditional kankles music. Almost half of the responders (teachers of music and ethnic culture) wish to have extra studies of ethnic culture.