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Creative educational outcomes through extracurricular musical activities

Extracurricular activities became a significant component of education and schooling, and with their expansion, openness, diversity and freedom they are of crucial importance to students. Extracurricular musical activities are an integral part of educational school structure in the Republic of Croatia. As a part of eight-year primary education, every pupil encounters himself/herself, next to regular classes, with the possibility to select various extracurricular activities. Together with regular music lessons they contribute to update the pupils’ knowledge, development of their music skills and acquisition of positive human characteristics. The teaching curriculum of extracurricular musical activities contributes with its choice of contents to unburdening of regular classes, as well as to enrichment of topics of extracurricular musical activities, especially for the pupils who want to know more. A correlation between contents of different school subjects such as Croatian language, art, music culture and history, and geography, can develop an interdisciplinary character of the working process. We will describe one of the extracurricular music activities: the work on the musical Your path. The purpose of this school musical is to encourage the creativity of students and enable them to participate in a more complex type of music. Working on the musical means the development of singing and acting skills of students. It encouraged their creativity and resulted in the creative act – staging of the school musical. In order to perform a musical, program content and activities designed by the collaboration of three groups of students: composers, choir and drama groups of school, was necessary.

extracurricular musical activities ; musical ; creativity ; school ; pupils

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