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A PsAlmus HumAnus művészetpedagógiai egyesület
megalapítása és tevékenysége

„Music belongs to everyone. But how can we make it so?”
Zoltán Kodály

Psalmus Humanus Art Educational Association –
a Presentation of the Civil Organization Based in Budapest

Our purpose with the establishment
of the association was
Extracts from the Statutes of the Association programme
„…to cultivate Kodály’s art education heritage and give assist-
ance to the theoretical and practical elaboration of both educa-
tional initiatives and research, as well as to summarize and pub-
lish the results and help public education to benefit from these
experiences.”
After several years’ shared work we oficially founded our civil organization based in
Budapest in the spring of 2002. The members of the Psalmus Humanus Art Educa-
tional Association are highly qualified, practising teachers working together for over
half a decade, who represent a wide range of professions in the field of art education.
As for our basic qualification, most of us are teachers of music and singing, still,
nearly all of us have additional post-graduate degrees in either education or the arts.
They each represent various institutions ranging from nursery schools to the univer-
sities, from the capital as well as from several Hungarian country towns.
From the activity of the association so far:
1. We began to share our professional knowledge as a result of a subsequent series
of successful applications in the study of music teaching. 1998: „We were the very
first… 1999: „Teaching music and singing at the turn of millennia on Kodály’s principles”
„’Psalmus Humanus’ – Answering Today’s Challenges of Kodály’s Principles”-
2. In 2000 Katalin K. Udvari’s book „ Psalmus Humanus” Music Primary School Kecs-
kemét, 1950 was published by Püski Publishing House, 2000.
3. Under the name of Psalmus Humanus, we started a model integrated art educa-
tion programme, later introduced to a board of recognized professionals between
October, 2000 and January, 2001.
4. The first foreign presentation of the Psalmus Humanus art education programme
was at the conference on music teaching organized by the International Society
for Music Education (ISME) – Bergen, Norway, 11–16 August, 2002. (Presenter:
Emőke Tari Solymosi: “Psalmus Humanus” – Tradition and Innovation in Hungarian
Music Education).

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