Video as an Alternative Approach to Teaching Folk Dances in Music Lessons

Abstract

In this paper, the authors present an in-depth analysis of eight educational videos, selected from the total of 153 videos for teaching music art at the classroom level (ages 6–10 years) on the Slovenian educational portal www.razlagamo.si, created during the COVID 19 pandemic. The in-depth analysis focuses on the folk dances presented in the videos, the articulation of the teaching unit, the use of teaching methods, the integration of student activities, the use of audiovisual resources and adaptations. On the basis of the shortcomings that were identified, the authors highlight guidelines and didactic recommendations for teaching folk dances in traditional lessons and through educational videos, justify the usefulness of folk dances in music teaching in primary schools and present possibilities for using new information technologies in the preservation of intangible cultural heritage.

Keywords

• educational video
• folk dance
• music education