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Regional Cultural Awareness of Educational Sciences Students with a Special Review of the Istrian Regional Music

Knowledge about regional topics starts in the family and continues in kindergartens and schools. Globalization incited thoughts about the need of preserving the patrimony and heritage from oblivion. The issue of identity and all tangible and intangible values of a certain area, including all entities living in that area, are linked to regional topics. The Programme of Intercurricular and Interdisciplinary Contents of Citizenship Education in Primary and Secondary Schools (2014) and the Istrian Cultural Developmental Strategy for the Period 2014 – 2020 (2014) give the conditions for education about regional topics to be conducted in preschool and school institutions throughout Croatia, and especially in Istria, since the projects are partly financed by the County of Istria. Since some of the projects have already begun, the educators and classroom education teachers' competency is extremely important to raise awareness about the importance of creating personal identities through regional elements with children at an early age, which would also improve their mastering the necessary knowledge and skills linked to cultural heritage. Starting from this premise, students of the Undergraduate Specialist Study of Preschool Education and the Integrated Undergraduate and Graduate University Teacher Study of the Juraj Dobrila University of Pula were questioned (N=272). The aim was to study their attitude about the importance of regional cultural heritage, especially music. It was assumed that students using a dialect in their communication give attention to the knowledge of regional heritage and that students, regardless of the county they come from, consider the introduction of the regional idiom into the educational process as useful. Although it was presumed that students from Istria have a better knowledge of the Istrian musical cultural heritage (musicians, songs, instruments and customs) than students who are in Istria to study, but come from other parts of Croatia, the research only partly confirmed it. Namely, the results indicate students' general cultural awareness, but also their insufficiently acquired knowledge and competencies which indicates the need for the implementation of courses about regional contents in the study programme.

folklore, music culture, Istria, education, regional topics education

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