Attitudes of Students and Teachers about Distance Music Teaching in the Republic of Croatia

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, distance learning is becoming essential for continuing education. As part of this work, re-search was conducted during the 2021/22 school year in the Republic of Croatia for the purpose of determining possible differences in the attitudes of students and music teachers regarding remote music lessons during the Covid-19 pandemic. Data were collected through an online survey which was completed by 583 re-search participants, of whom 503 were students in the seventh and eighth grades of elementary general education, and 83 were teachers of Music Culture who teach music in elementary schools. The results showed that, to a great extent, teachers believe that teaching music in an online modality requires a lot of effort and generates stress. Also, to a much lesser extent, teachers believe that during remote music lessons, students acquire the same knowledge as in lessons at school and that grades in distance learning are not a reflection of students' actual knowledge. Also, teachers consider that they are more lenient when evaluating distance learning than in on -site teaching. Given the fact that distance learning has become an integral part of modern educational reality, not only due to pandemic conditions, it deserves more attention from the entire education community, with a special focus on teachers and education authorities.