The results of this study highlight the importance of music teachers’ peda- gogical thinking in the realm of general music education and indicate the options for putting the objectives and content of music syllabi into practice. It also reveals some more profound influences of curriculum theories on the educational realities. As long as there are teachers guiding the learning proc- esses in our schools, it is their education and pedagogical thinking that shapes the nature of the schooling of our children. The written documents are just not “alive” but need the wisdom, love and professionalism of the teachers to be put into practice. Accordingly in music education context, it would not be wise to confront praxial and aesthetical approaches in music education; per- haps it would be more rewarding to consider opportunities of integrated cog- nitive praxial approach, which would enable learners to comprehend their musical activities and also to understand and see the aesthetical values em-
bedded in it. Music can immensely contribute to individual identity building as well as to cohesion in society and sustainability of the national culture. This makes the comprehensive school music education a much more serious matter and confirms that every child deserves to get the best possible guiding when acquiring knowledge and skills provided by general music education.
Thus, the question of what is understood by general music education in comprehensive schools and how the teachers interpret and apply the syllabi of music education remain the key issues in basic school education. Music teachers have to be provided with sufficient environments, pedagogical and musical skills to carry out these ideas. Education, including music education is a moral enterprise beyond all other devices of human origin that can bal- ance unpredictable developmental events of post-modern times providing support for cohesion in society. Music has been and remains one of the best mediums to influence and nurture children in order to ensure the sustainabil- ity of culture. That is where we all have to share responsibility.
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