Question Left Unanswered (Lessons by Eduard Borisovich Abdullin)

Abstract

The article describes the author’s personal perception of his Teacher, one of the best representatives of the Russian musical and pedagogical science, Eduard Borisovich Abdullin, as a person, a musician-teacher, and a scientist. Among the personal and professional qualities of E. B. Abdullin, the author, speaking about the “magic of personality”, notes his passion for his profession, his ability to “infect” others with it, his highest level of morality, his creative degree of “being” in the musical and educational environment, his ability to bring particular problems of the educational process to a fundamentally different level – the level of creativity and scientific analysis. The author considers his meeting with Eduard Borisovich to be his main life lesson and the answer to the question: “What should a musician-teacher be like?” As one of the essential principles of the scientific school by E. B. Abdullin, the author considers the “principle of questioning”. This principle is associated with the questions that everyone asks, first of all, to himself when solving various problems encountered in the educational process. In the School by E. B. Abdullin, multi-level “questions – answers”, “questions – problems”, “questions – reflections” characterize the semantic content of almost all components of the music teaching profession. This paradigm, according to the author, is consistent with the Dialogic way of teaching in antiquity – the guiding questions prepared by the Teacher stimulate the cognitive activity of the student and necessarily lead to the understanding of knowledge due to his personal capabilities. This model maximizes the student’s personality and unique creative and reflexive development. In the section “Evolution of research interests”, the author briefly outlines the problems of his own PhD and doctoral theses, completed under the supervision of E. B. Abdullin, as well as some dissertation materials of his students, who continue the traditions of the scientific School “Methodology of music education pedagogy”.

Keywords

• eduard borisovich abdullin
• scientific-pedagogical school
• the principle of “questioning”
• methodological culture of the musician-teacher