Criteria, indicators and levels of musical arts masters’ preparedness for developing schoolchildren’s vocal culture by means of the participation technology

The article presents the criteria, indicators and levels of Musical Arts masters’ preparedness (proficiency levels) for developing schoolchildren’s vocal culture by means of the participation technology. The art- and worldview-oriented, creative-performing and innovative-organizational criteria have been determined on the basis of the structure of the Musical Art masters’ training.The art- and worldview-oriented criterion is determined by: the openness of the process of emotional experience and artistically justified interpretation of an image as a worldview of an artistic character (hero); coordination while identifying moral orientations in a group and an independent choice of vocal value; mastering the variability of vocal artistic and pedagogical creative tasks and flexible technologies. The creative-performing criterion is characterized by a high level of participants’ vocal culture; mastery of types, techniques, organizational forms of vocal participation; voluntariness and interest in the general vocal process, polysubject-centred creative pedagogical interaction. The innovative-organizational criterion is revealed through these indicators: skills to organize and conduct an interactive lesson as a vocal participatory art-practice; knowledge of the stages and experience of organizing the process of making a cooperative vocal-creative decision; mastery of the means enabling the activation of the group energy involving all participants of the vocal process.The preparedness (proficiency) levels of the subjects involved into education have been determined – low, intermediate, high. The criteria, indicators and levels indicated in the work allow evaluating Musical Arts masters’ preparedness for developing schoolchildren’s vocal culture by means of the participation technology in a complex way as well as determining the state and development dynamics of the vocal culture of the students constituting this category. Keywords: masters of Musical Art, schoolchildren’s vocal culture, technologies, participation, function, criterion, indicator, level.