The syllabuses, which reflect the condition and orientation of the school policy, bind and guide teachers when they plan and execute lessons. The basis for this master’s thesis is the music syllabuses from 1944 to today and their practical implementation. The theoretical part represents the historical overview of musical education in Slovenia, with a more detailed examination of the education of the primary school (single class) teachers in the Littoral (Primorska) region after World War II. In the empirical part we analysed, on the basis of previously set criteria, primary school music syllabuses for 1st to 4th grades of the 8-year primary school, i.e. the first cycle of the primary school and for 1st to 5th grades of the 9-year primary school. We also analysed the music syllabuses for teacher training schools, Teacher training college in Ljubljana and Faculty of Education in Koper. Using a semi-structured interview we obtained opinions of five primary school (single class) teachers about music syllabuses and their application in everyday school life from post-war years until today. They expressed their views in five different categories: musical education, teaching music, further musical education, music syllabuses and textbooks with music syllabus. The analysis of the results, obtained from the interviews, showed that the interviewees except one had no previous training in music, they went through different education systems to receive their degrees to practice their teacher professions and their knowledge of the syllabuses is linked to the syllabus Programme of life and work of the basic school from 1984. By conducting further research and sampling a greater number of older teachers we could test their knowledge of the syllabuses before 1983. This way we could obtain information about how important music syllabuses for primary schools were. Having conducted the chronological analysis of the music syllabuses we determined that there were differences in the naming of the music subjects, the teaching aims and contents, the number of weekly lessons and other elements. Findings obtained from the analysis of the music syllabuses for the primary school as well as for the further teacher profession training enable us to gain some insight into the historical development of the subject.
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