Informal Learning in Bulgarian Folk Singing – Traditions and Modernity

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Pages: 89-110

Abstract:

The text presented in this study aims to examine informal learning in detail, with a particular focus on informal learning in Bulgarian folk singing; to analyze and highlight the differences between formal, non-formal, and informal learning; to 110 compare the past and the present and to define precisely and clearly the current state of informal learning in folk singing, based on the scientific research of Bulgarian and foreign folklorists and ethnomusicologists. The study attempts to identify and accurately describe the current practice of informal learning, and to compare contemporary methods of informal learning in folk singing with the transmission of song traditions from the past. For the purposes of the study, a table has been created to systematize traditional and contemporary training in folk singing into its three forms— formal, informal, and non-formal, and a new term has been introduced, combining formal education and informal learning, called formal informality in the transmission of the song tradition from the past to present. It determines the passing down of the song tradition from the perspective of contemporary informal learning in folk singing education, in which the formal aspect has an organisational and stage-based structure. Last but not least, the prospects of informal learning in folk singing are examined.

Keywords:

formal learning, non-formal learning, informal learning, Bulgarian folklore singing. traditional culture.

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