Methodological principles of future singing teachers’ cognitive activity development DOI

The article considers the topical issues of the development of cognitive activity of musical art master-degree students - future singing teachers as a condition for their successful preparation for the formation of vocal-performing skills in students of pedagogical music faculties. The purpose of the article is the substantiation of scientific approaches, the fundamental ideas of which should contribute to the development of a methodology for raising the level of future singing teachers' cognitive activity. The author defines the contradictions that exist between modern requirements for the training of specialists in higher education, the methodological achievements of modern pedagogical science and the inadequate level of cognitive activity and the knowledge of the voice training teachers regarding innovative achievements in the field of musical pedagogy, which leads to their unwillingness to act in the new conditions of modern society and achieve high results in terms of reducing the time spent in classroom and focusing on students' independent work. The complex of subjective and objective contradictory factors, which consist in the absence of works comprehensively covering the issues of development of cognitive activity and independent thinking of future singing teachers, insufficient methodical provision of educational process, aimed at activation of students' cognitive activity during vocal classes, as well as in the relative conservatism of the traditions of academic vocal education and the methods of singers' vocal training. The substantiation is given to methodological approaches, following the fundamental ideas of which should help to develop a methodology for preparing the future specialists to the future musical art teachers' voice training on the basis of raising their cognitive activity level. These include a personality-activity based approach that directs the teacher's attention to taking into account students' individual characteristics and stimulating their cognitive and creative activity; artistic-hermeneutic, the application of which results in a deep understanding of the essence of artistic-figurative content of vocal works; competence based, which allows systematically and comprehensively form knowledge and skills and experience of their independent and creative implementation in the educational process.