FORMATION OF SELF-EDUCATIONAL COMPETENCE OF A FUTURE MUSIC TEACHER

Abstract

The relevance of the problem intended to form self-educational competence of a future music teacher which is revealed in this article, is determined by the fundamental changes going on in the modern socio-political, economic, and cultural life in Ukraine, in national education, musical theory and practice. The foremost requirement of the modern music pedagogical education is to train a highly qualified, competent and knowledgeable teacher and musician possessing developed professional competences, which provide, under the conditions of radical social and cultural transformations and intensive development of the New Ukrainian School, the ability for personal and professional self-improvement, creative implementation of pedagogically important functions – educational, research and methodical, social and pedagogical, organizational, cultural and educational, and other functions. Today, the problem of professional training of teachers of art disciplines is particularly relevant, since art education is of great importance in the general education and upbringing of young people, preparing them for future creative activities. In the article, the authors consider self-educational competence of a future music teacher as his/her professional and personal characteristic feature which is based upon internal motivation and advanced cognitive interests in the regular and systematic replenishment of knowledge – professional, psychological, methodical, cultural. This knowledge will ensure the ability to successfully design his/her further general and professional development. In this context, the authors offer the following definition to self-educational competence of a future teacher: it is a systematic integrative phenomenon of his/her consistent professionalization, a characteristic of enthusiastic educational and research activity, which results in positive professional changes on the way to pedagogical mastery. The content of the article substantiates the structure of the formation of self-educational competence of a future teacher and musician which is based upon his/her individual educational and cognitive, information retrieval, research and experimental and artistic creative activities, self-determination and predicting self-education results.