Ass. Prof. Dr. Emine Kıvanç Öztuğ¹, İlias Abdoulline²

Music Education, Atatürk Education Faculty, Near East University, Lefkosa, Turkey 99138

Telephone:+905338609640,05338660782

E-mail: ¹emine.kivancoztug@neu.edu.tr , ²ilias.abdoulline@neu.edu.tr

Abstract

Contemporary musical pedagogy aims to transfer in the most accurate manner to next generations musicological knowledge, fundamentals of instrument playing, pedagogical competences and professional tasks that will occur in a creative approach. The most important factor for this study is that contemporary student mass is multi-national and multi-religious. Viewed from this perspective, historical development process of musical pedagogy of Russia is a didactic process which should be taken into consideration. The period between 1918 and 2000 are years when problems occured in the generla educaiton of the country and especially in musical pedagogy in political terms. The research was based on historical-descriptive research method according to qualitative approach. Republic of Tatarstan, which is taken as sample, it is observed that educators are in search of the right with trial adn error method and solve the problms in music education and in a multi-national environment teachers encounter with individuals from different ethnicla groups, mentalities and cultural roots. At the end of the study, it is asserted that despite this multiplex structure in every region of Russia musicla education is being continued with an holistic approach.

Keywords: Music educaiton policy, Tatarstan, Russia