10. Strategic Dimensions of Permanent Musical Education as a Part of the Development of Personality’s Musical Culture

TLDR: According to the European education current perspective, art education is a continuous individual spiritual self-realization process of the personality as mentioned in this paper, which has a continuous impact on the whole life.

Abstract: 1. IntroductionThe issue of education in contemporary society acquires new connotations, determined especially by the unprecedented changes in all areas of social life. The education goes beyond national standards and values and aspires to universality, to the common values of humanity's heritage. Thus lifelong learning occupies an important role in the formation of the personality. Contemporary educational ideal aims at developing the human potential to create a harmonious and creative personality, able to practise the competency with optimal yield. It aims at developing the most important human qualities: attitudes, skills, motivations, ideals etc. As the society is changing, generating new demands in education, it means that man, at his turn, must be a good receptor of the educational action, particularly referring to the artistic phenomenon that is "educational it self " [4], and has a continuous impact on the whole life. Art, that gives the possibility to the subject to live differently and, at the same time, creates the subject's inner world, participates actively at the creation of the individuality, ensuring his "full life" [10]. In general, the art education is efficient when, the taught personality is regarded as an agent, but not an object.2. DiscussionsSubject-centered approach in the educational process means that the student is the subject of this process. Consequently, the educational process is to ensure conditions for the student's active participation in it. I. S. Bruner says that to train somebody does not mean storing of information, but it means student's active participation in gathering knowledge [4]. Art, from this point of view, has a well known educational force. According to the European education current perspective, art education is a continuous individual spiritual self-realization process of the personality. This process is realized through many forms of contact with the fine arts, these being ways of reflecting the universe.The Romanian psychologist M. Stefan asserts: ,,All education derives from the experience of child social situation" [4], educational environment representing all the conditions under which the educational action develops. In the theory of psychological functions development, the great Russian teacher L. Vigotskii notices: ,,... any function in the child's culture development manifests its double appearance, initially - in the social sphere, then in the psychological one; first - in the society as an interpsychological factor, later - inside the child as an intrapsychological category" [5]. In the field of pedagogy, this configuration of the factors existing in the development of an educational act is educational (educative, pedagogical) environment. The concept was defined by the Romanian researcher D. Todoran as ,,a structural and functional complex of forces (,,subjective" and ,,objective") which determines the human spiritual growth and development" [8]. The content of education has a larger sphere than the contents of the educational process, the last one being represented only by the suggested and organized by school values. The education includes values which pupils assimilate by methods and means less systemized than the educational ones, outside the school.The up-to-date vision on European education treats the notion of artistic (musical) education as an individual continuous process of personality spiritual self-realization by multiple forms of contact with the fine arts these being ways of reflecting the universe in which the person is retrieved as a component, musical culture representing the core of personality culture in general. Art education comprises values that students assimilate permanently through methods and means less systematic than those didactic. The family, the religious, cultural and art institutions, media etc. are considered educational resources and they have a great influence on the personality. Spiritual development by / for art is done under the influence of a group of internal and external factors. …