Music education and digital culture

interaction of integrative thinking and creative technologies

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https://doi.org/10.35699/2317-6377.2025.58891

Keywords:

music education, digital culture, integrative thinking, creativity, pedagogical innovations

Abstract

The aim of the study is to analyze the impact of a digital learning environment on students’ motivation, engagement, and creativity in music education, focusing on the implementation of digital tools in music education. The research methodology includes a survey of 100 music teachers, five focus group interviews and an experimental study with 81 students divided into three groups using of interactive, project-oriented, and blended learning models. The results show that the use of digital platforms increase student motivation, digital competence, and music performance. The study offers methodological recommendations for integrating digital technologies into music education.

Author Biographies

  • Olha Shcholokova, Dragomanov Ukrainian State University

    Doctor of Pedagogy, Professor of the Department of Piano Performance and Art Pedagogy, Anatolii Avdiievsky Faculty of Arts, Dragomanov Ukrainian State University, Kyiv, Ukraine. Her research interests embrace modern methodology of art education, transformation of higher art education in Ukraine, cultural orientation of art education, aesthetic principles of music and pedagogical research. Prof. Shcholokova is the author of art teachers´professional training programmes that are used in higher pedagogical educational institutions of Ukraine.

  • Alla Skopych, Dragomanov Ukrainian State University

    PhD in Pedagogy, Associate Professor of the Department of Piano Performance and Art Pedagogy, Anatolii Avdiievsky Faculty of Arts, Dragomanov Ukrainian State University, Kyiv, Ukraine. She teaches theory and history of piano art, individual disciplines (special piano, specialised and additional instrument), and concertmaster class.

  • Nataliia Zhurska, Dragomanov Ukrainian State University

    PhD in Pedagogy, Associate Professor of the Department of Piano Performance and Art Pedagogy, Anatolii Avdiievsky Faculty of Arts, Dragomanov Ukrainian State University, Ukraine. Her research interests include personal growth of students and the development of their professional qualities, the formation of musical and performing culture of future teachers on the basis of activation of musical thinking, motivational and reflective spheres.

  • Leonid Khomenko, Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music

    PhD in Pedagogy, Senior Lecturer of the Department of Theory and History of Culture, Faculty of History and Theory of Music and Composition, and Foreign Students, Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music, Kyiv, Ukraine. His research interests consist in music education, theory of art, students’ motivation.

  • Tetiana Rastruba, Nizhyn Mykola Gogol State University

    PhD in Pedagogy, Associate Professor of the Department of Vocal and Choral Skills, Faculty of Pedagogy, Psychology, Social Work and Arts, Nizhyn Mykola Gogol State University, Nizhyn, Chernihiv Region, Ukraine. She is a Conductor and choirmaster of the Svytych Choir at Nizhyn Mykola Gogol State University. She teaches conducting, choral and vocal training, professional music performance training, choral studies and choral arrangement, reading and analysis of choral scores, computer arrangement of choral works, vocal and choral studios, and organisation of creative projects.

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“Music Education and Digital Culture: Interaction of Integrative Thinking and Creative Technologies”. (2025) 2025. Per Musi 26 (July): 1-18. https://doi.org/10.35699/2317-6377.2025.58891.