mgr Joanna Paluch

  ORCID: 0000-0001-5911-2080

The topic of my dissertation is: “Intuition, knowledge and abilities in teaching cello in I ground music schools”

My dissertation is about to concern cello pedagogy and I’m going to focus on education of children attending to 1^st ground music schools, whom are in group age of 6-12 years old. Thesis which I am about to write will be characterized by interdisciplinarity. I would like to begin conducting my research process by comparison and discussion on already released publications on a verge of psychology, neurobiology, pedagogy, and esthetics concerning theory of learning. Afterwards I am going to refer to directly to positions treating about methodology of instrumental teaching, especially those regarding cello playing. Research problems, which I am about to verify do apply to following issues: repertoire selection for student, optimized structure of preparing musical compositions, efficient practicing, and aspects of public performances by young artists. The resulting of those considerations hypothesis’ I am going to verify by quantitive research through surveys conducted in groups of teachers and students and also qualitative, using observations and interviews with tutors and pupils.

In my research I intend to synthesize gathered data into complementary argument. I believe that this type of approach bears a mark of uniqueness because of Its holistic value. In my opinion this dissertation may be a very helpful tool to work with students, not only for cello teachers, but also different type of educators. However, in teaching methodology I will focus mainly on cello pedagogy, my research will be universal in the area of psychology and musical education which independently function on similar patterns.

I think that art fields for the long time hadn’t been treated as serious domains for research. It is gradually changing, and I believe it’s worth to follow that path, example of which will be my dissertation.