Music Education Supporting Estonian Basic School Students’ Collective Identity: A Comparative Study

Abstract

Estonian multiculturalism concept requires public socio-cultural space. Different culture groups’ successful communication results in collective identity. Music, with musical thinking as its action mechanism, supports basic school students’ collective identity. The research question is - what are the opportunities provided by the effect of music education on the development of basic school students’ collective identity? This study aimed to find out about the effect of music education on the development of basic school students’ collective identity. The focus was on the potential of music textbooks to support collective identity of the students of forms 8 to 9 of Estonian and Russian medium schools. The research methods applied are content analysis and the image reading method. The research results allow us to conclude that basic school music education textbooks contain a sufficient amount of varied and instructive information to create preconditions and a basis for the education and development of students with a qualitatively new personality – with high level of ethnic and social consciousness, empathy, and a strong spirit of Estonian citizenship or collective identity.

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