Author(s)

Olga Denac

Department of Pre-School Education, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia.

The article presented the results of a study which included 159 pre-school teachers from all over Slovenia. The aim of the research was to determine whether teachers in the process of operative planning of the educational process account for the principles of horizontal integration and professional justification. We analyzed the planned curriculum in terms of structure, activities, goals, principles and contents. The results of the research show that the music education has been losing professional autonomy within the field of art, as kindergarten teachers only partially carry out individual principles of the curriculum in the planning of the educational process.

Curriculum for Kindergartens, Principle of Horizontal Connectedness and Professional Justification, Planning of the Educational Process, Music Education

Denac, O. (2015) Carrying out the Principle of Horizontal Connectedness and Professional Justification in the Planned Curriculum for Kindergartens in the Field of Music Education. Creative Education, 6, 1867-1873. doi: 10.4236/ce.2015.617191.