FORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT HISTORY OF HIGHER MUSIC AND PEDAGOGICAL EDUCATION IN KAZAKHSTAN (LATE 20TH - EARLY 21ST CENTURIES)

Abstract

The present study is devoted to the formation and development history of higher music and pedagogical education in Kazakhstan in the second half of the 20th and in the early 21st centuries. The research aims to determine the conditions and the main stages of formation and development, to study the history of the organization of music and pedagogical faculties in the universities of Kazakhstan, to identify key areas and trends in training music and pedagogical personnel, and to analyze the pedagogical activity and experience of Kazakhstan’s leading musicians and teachers. Materials and methods. The research employed the systemic, historical, and cultural studies approaches, historical retrospective, theoretical methods of studying and analyzing scientific literature, archival sources, legislative and regulatory documentation, and systematization and classification of factual data. Scientific works, theses, materials of the Central State Archive of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and legislative and regulatory documentation were used. Results. In the analyzed period, a system of higher music and pedagogical education was formed in Kazakhstan. At present, bachelors, undergraduates and PhD students in the qualification ‘Musical Education’ are trained in more than 20 leading universities of Kazakhstan, covering all the regions of the country. The formation and development of higher music and pedagogical education in Kazakhstan was determined by historical, socio-political, socio-economic, cultural factors and by conditions and reforms in the field of education. This provision allowed defining periodization and chronological boundaries of the formation and development of higher music and pedagogical education in Kazakhstan, identifying leading trends in the process of training music and teaching personnel. Discussion and conclusions. The research materials allow using the accumulated historical and cultural experience and tradition, as well as modern achievements, in training music and pedagogical personnel; they can be employed by researchers interested in the formation and development history of higher music and pedagogical education in the Republic of Kazakhstan.