music courses, musical competencies, music education, preschool teacher education
Abstract
The paper provides an overview of music education in the framework of the pre-school studies at the University of Zadar. Featured are music courses after a series of changes that the pre-school studies experienced. In particular, the change is visible to by introducing of the Bologna process (2005) which has engulfed the entire higher education in Croatia, and was also reflected in the musical education at pre-school studies. The work illuminates the musical competencies by European standards grouped into broad categories: domain-specific (academic) and generic (general) based on Tuning competences project. The aim of this paper is to highlight the need for competent educators, capable of playing music. Such trainer will give children a quality music experience which achieves the goal of music education, and encourage the children to develop a love of music.
