Critical Perspectives on Values Education in China’s School Music Education in a Changing Society: A Study of Beijing in the Global Age

Wai Chung Ho*

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Abstract

With reference to the transforming society in Beijing, this chapter will investigate to what extent primary and secondary school music teachers view values education in respect to musical and non-musical learning as a reflection of China’s sociopolitical ideologies and as part of school education and school music education and how they interpret and incorporate musical knowledge and other values of multiculturalism and nationalism that are transmitted in the school music curriculum. This chapter will conclude with a clear view of China’s school music education as complex and contradictory, as well as the mutually constitutive relationship between multiculturalism and nationalism in the interplay between communist ideology and contemporary values in the global age. There is also the question of how to explore and implement values education that seeks to put Chinese Dream discourse in social, political, and educational contexts in school music education.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCulture, Music Education, and the Chinese Dream in Mainland China
EditorsWai-Chung Ho
PublisherSpringer Singapore
Pages195-232
Number of pages38
Edition1st
ISBN (Electronic)9789811075339
ISBN (Print)9789811075322, 9789811356506
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018

Publication series

NameCultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education
Volume7
ISSN (Print)2345-7708
ISSN (Electronic)2345-7716

Scopus Subject Areas

  • Cultural Studies
  • Education
  • Sociology and Political Science

User-Defined Keywords

  • Communist ideology
  • Contemporary values
  • Global age
  • Multiculturalism
  • Nationalism
  • School music education
  • Values education

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