MUSIC THERAPY IN THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS OF THE PEDAGOGICAL COLLEGE
Abstract
The article is devoted to the potential of music therapy and its therapeutic and pedagogical properties. A brief historical overview is performed according to health-saving influence of music. The importance of music’s active use in hospitals, rehabilitation centers, kindergartens, schools, industry and agriculture is emphasized. The aspects of music therapy’s using in educational process of higher educational institutions in general and pedagogical college in particular are elucidated in the article: keeping of health, improving the performance of students, activation of their interest to learning, increasing of activity and emotional stability, solving the problems of interpersonal communication. Some experience of music therapy’s using in medicine, psychiatry and pedagogics is gained in recent years in Ukraine. Music therapy is academic discipline in some Ukrainian higher educational institutions. Scientific and practical conferences, educational and methodical seminars about music therapy take place in Zaporizhia, Kyiv, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk. The author’s perennial experience of teaching in colleges allowes to conclude that the students are not able to eliminate nervous tension and to stabilizate emotional state. Music helps them to tune emotionally in to work and influence positively on their overall learning success. The preparing of future elementary school teachers was organized with periods of musical rest. Undoubtedly sound is important extraordinary source of energy. The scientists have established a relationship between the frequency of music vibrations and human physiological processes. Phon music, used during writing tests in college, activates mental and creative activity, predetermines reducing the number of mistakes and improving the quality of knowledge. The combination of pedagogical methods and managed musical influence allows reviving the spiritual and physical health of the society under the conditions the least financial cost.
