Ioannis Fulias, “The role of the graduates of the Departments of Musical Studies in
musical education”, Musicología
18, Athens 2003, p. 106-114.
Despite
the fact that the graduates of the Departments of Musical Studies have more
formal and virtual qualifications than anyone else in Greece in order to
support the various sections of the public and private musical education, the
“antiquated” and insufficient (if not absent at all) legal framework in force,
in combination with the existence of a plethora of possessors of any
non-university degrees in musical skills (which are involved in the music
teaching too, although they have not the elementary cognitive adequacy and
pedagogical instruction), creates serious obstacles in the effort for a virtual
upgrading of the Greek musical education. In this paper we briefly examine the
main problems that confront the graduates of the University Music Departments
in their access in public lower and middle musical education and in
conservatories as teachers, pointing out the necessity of the establishment of
a Music Academy in Greece as well as of the definitive disjunction between the
musical education and the musical artistry at all levels.
© Ioannis
Fulias