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Katarina Zadnik, BACHOVI CVETNI PLESI – ALTERNATIVNI PRISTOP PRI DELU Z UÈENCI...
Summary
The increase of pupils with special needs is perceived in general and music school
education in the Slovenian territory. In comparison to documents of elementary school
education, which support the integration of mentioned group into regural educational
programmes, pupils with special needs are not defined and considered in the Music School
Act (2000, 2006). In oposite, the active music teachers report the inclusion of the
mentioned group of pupils in their learning process as well as their needs for additional
professional training for mentioned group (Zadnik, Habe, 2018). Teachers recognize the
presence of pupils with deficits in particular areas of learning, such as, reading and writing
a music record, low level of attention, deficits in coordination in the psychomotor domain.
Due to the modest representation of concrete didactics approaches and strategies in the
area of working with pupils with special needs and the lack of the professional services to
provide a support to teachers of individual and group classes in music school, alternative
approaches in working with this group of pupils are coming in the forefront. The described
situation was an incentive to execute the project with the Bach flower dances in one of the
Slovenian music school.
British doctor Edward Bach (1886–1936), who developed Bach flower remedies,
considered the holistic approach to human’s personality in his medicine practice. He
intuitively discovered 37 flower essences, one of them is related to pure spring water.
Thirty-eight essences balance the negatively expressed emotional and spiritual states
before they manifest themselves in the form of disease at the physical level (Ramsell
Howard, 2005; Pesek, Èagran, 2010). A step further was made by Anastasia Geng
(1922–2002), a Latvian dancer and choreographer, who developed Bach flower dances.
Bach flower dances, which are circle dances, are based on the Latvian folk tradition.
Dances in circle are held around the center with symbolic meaning (candles, flowers,
cards, etc.), which is a symbol of the center of the universe, source of cosmic energy, from
which dancers draw their own energy deficit or release redundant energy at the physical,
emotional and spiritual levels (Geng, 1999).
The purpose of the 5-month project, which was carried out in the instrumental and group
Music theory classes, was to determine the effects of the Bach flower dances in the areas
of learning motivation, attention, concentration and emotional state. The results of a
multiple case study, on a sample of 8 pupils of different instruments, at the age of 7- to
11-years-old, showed the positive effects of Bach flower dances in all observed areas. The
outstanding positive progress was noted in the time-extended concentration and higher
level of attention, especially during performances and final exams by the pupils in the
instrumental classes.
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Summary
The increase of pupils with special needs is perceived in general and music school
education in the Slovenian territory. In comparison to documents of elementary school
education, which support the integration of mentioned group into regural educational
programmes, pupils with special needs are not defined and considered in the Music School
Act (2000, 2006). In oposite, the active music teachers report the inclusion of the
mentioned group of pupils in their learning process as well as their needs for additional
professional training for mentioned group (Zadnik, Habe, 2018). Teachers recognize the
presence of pupils with deficits in particular areas of learning, such as, reading and writing
a music record, low level of attention, deficits in coordination in the psychomotor domain.
Due to the modest representation of concrete didactics approaches and strategies in the
area of working with pupils with special needs and the lack of the professional services to
provide a support to teachers of individual and group classes in music school, alternative
approaches in working with this group of pupils are coming in the forefront. The described
situation was an incentive to execute the project with the Bach flower dances in one of the
Slovenian music school.
British doctor Edward Bach (1886–1936), who developed Bach flower remedies,
considered the holistic approach to human’s personality in his medicine practice. He
intuitively discovered 37 flower essences, one of them is related to pure spring water.
Thirty-eight essences balance the negatively expressed emotional and spiritual states
before they manifest themselves in the form of disease at the physical level (Ramsell
Howard, 2005; Pesek, Èagran, 2010). A step further was made by Anastasia Geng
(1922–2002), a Latvian dancer and choreographer, who developed Bach flower dances.
Bach flower dances, which are circle dances, are based on the Latvian folk tradition.
Dances in circle are held around the center with symbolic meaning (candles, flowers,
cards, etc.), which is a symbol of the center of the universe, source of cosmic energy, from
which dancers draw their own energy deficit or release redundant energy at the physical,
emotional and spiritual levels (Geng, 1999).
The purpose of the 5-month project, which was carried out in the instrumental and group
Music theory classes, was to determine the effects of the Bach flower dances in the areas
of learning motivation, attention, concentration and emotional state. The results of a
multiple case study, on a sample of 8 pupils of different instruments, at the age of 7- to
11-years-old, showed the positive effects of Bach flower dances in all observed areas. The
outstanding positive progress was noted in the time-extended concentration and higher
level of attention, especially during performances and final exams by the pupils in the
instrumental classes.
115
