A Case Study On The Informal Learning Of College Music Majors

In the 21 st century,the human entered a lifelong learning society.The traditional music education mode is inevitably changed by the rapid development of knowledge.And music learning styles also presents the characteristics of the richness and diversity.The concept of informal learning has existed for many years.Such as Dewey’s theory of “education is life”,Tao xingzhi’s theory of “life is education”and Illich is an advocate of “deschoolingmovement”,which verify the necessity and importance of informal study and learning outside of school.In order to broaden the research field of vision,the author bases on the perspective of sociology and uses the theory of “field-habitus” the French sociologistPierre Bourdieu put forward to expound informal music learning.As Bourdieu’s two core concepts of his sociology theory system,field and habitus is not only an important analysis tool,but also possess valuable methodology significance inall disciplines.From this,it is very great significant that sociologically empirical research is carried on the informal music learning ability of the music majors in the respective of the Field-Habitus theory of Pierre Bourdieu.The article surveys the informal learning current situation of music majors,and finds out the problem of informal learning.Then it concludes the factors of informal music learning through the related research and puts forward a number of advises on promoting the informal music learning ability of music college students.The thesis is divided into six chapters.The first chapter is introduction,which introduces the study origin,purpose,meaning and method.The second chapter discusses the theoretical foundation and literature review and explains the related concepts and theories.The third chapter describes the preparatory work,the research place,object and the statistical method.Then it comes up with the research hypothesis and designs the questionnaire.The forth chapter surveys the informal learning current situation of music majors,and the date is analyzed by Excel and SPSS,at last,it summarizes the situation and problems.The fifth chapter is based on the current situation and researched through college students’ own element,learning field and habitus,which paves the way for concluding the factors of informal music learning.The sixth chapter summarizes the work,achievement and limitations,which aims at setting off an alarm bell for traditional music education,injecting fresh blood to the modern music classroom,and providing the beneficial referencefor the current music learning and curriculum reform.