Study On The Curriculum Theory Of World Music

World Music, as a newly emerging course which reflects the concept of "respecting cultural diversity, widening the scope of international music and promoting the identities of music culture", has attracted significant attention of music educators worldwide and is deemed as a promising field of academic inquiry. However, more efforts need to be made to explore the existing literature on the epistemological foundations of the course and relevant issues in curriculum theory for better music education.Discussions in this volume fall into four distinct parts. Part I traces the origin of the course and outlines the principles and methodology adopted in the current study. After examining the various schools of thoughts of curriculum theory, both their philosophical viewpoints and their academic contributions, the author presents his own viewpoints on the curriculum.Part II elaborates upon the philosophical foundation of the course in terms of the diversities of world culture and peace, development, cooperation and communication, global scope of music and the understanding and respect for the diversities of music culture.Part III puts forward a three-dimension view on the objective of the course, which includes emotion and attitudes in relation to values, processes and methods, and knowledge and skills. It also expounds the contents, the implementation and evaluation of the course, and presents an in-depth analysis of the teaching materials of World Music and its compilation. A number of assessment methods and tools are also explained.Part IV dwells on the development and utilization of the course resources from the perspectives human resources, contents, equipment, online information, and time and space. Five principles are proposed for the development and utilization of content resource, namely, the principle of priority, adaptability, layer-divisibility, practicality and participatoryness.