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Наставници музике у српским православним богословским школама између два светска рата
Music Teachers in Serbian Orthodox Seminaries Between the Two World Wars

Author(s): Biljana Mandić, Ivana Perković
Subject(s): Cultural history, History of Church(es), History of Education, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), Eastern Orthodoxy
Published by: Матица српска
Keywords: church singing; education; interwar period; micronarratives; professional knowledge landscapes; Seminaries; spirituality

Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses the work of music teachers in the theological schools between the two world wars. The theoretical model is based on the metaphor „landscape of knowledge”, which is used in the music pedagogy, and the methodological approach is based on the concept of micronarratives. The focus is on four strong individual pedagogues ‒ Dr Jefto Prnjatović, Boris Volobujev, Mirko Pavlović and Uroš Jurišić ‒ with the aim to position spiritual, social, institutional and cultural context of their activities, to consider how their knowledge from other, non-music, areas was relevant for teaching experience in the sphere of church singing, and to determine the (dis)continuity of pedagogical practices with regard to the period before the First World War. These pedagogues were chosen because their pedagogical activities lasted continually for at least ten years, because of the theological schools in which they worked and because of the fact that there is very little knowledge about their work in this area.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 151
  • Page Range: 249-275
  • Page Count: 27
  • Language: Serbian