A Study On Object, Content And Strategy Of Singing Teaching In Primary School Based On Curriculum Reform In China

At the beginning of 21th century, the comprehensive reform of China’s fundamental education has led to the earth-shaking changes in the philosophy, objectives and other aspects of primary schools’ curriculum. Music course, as an important course to implement aesthetic education, has been given more profound meanings and contents. Fulltime System Compulsory Education Music Course Standard, the important document of music course reform, has made a more specific definition, interpretation, discussion and analysis of the nature and value, the basic philosophy and objectives, contents and implementation of the music course. It comes up with a music education philosophy which regards appreciation of beauty as its core idea. This philosophy makes the music teaching a course of experiencing beauty, presenting beauty and creating beauty shared by both teachers and students.One of the most important contents among music teaching activities is the teaching of singing. Although it has already existed at the beginning of modern schools foundation, it changes and develops little and still clings to traditional teaching mode and methods after a hundred of years. Since the new curriculum reform, singing teaching has become a key and fundamental problem which need be solved immediately during the process of music course implementation. It has caught the attention both from the central leaders who are in charge of China’s music education to the music teachers in urban and rural areas. This thesis will conduct an in-depth exploration of some questions which have effects on the singing teaching in confrontation with the reform. Those questions include the objectives of singing teaching, the contents and the implementation strategies of singing teaching. The thesis uses some basic research methods of documentary, investigation case study to analyze the history and development of singing teaching. It also discusses specific questions of the goals and contents of singing teaching.The main framework of this thesis includes introduction, literature review, measurement of the development of children voice, research on current situation of primary schools’ singing teaching, objectives and meaning of singing teaching, contents and implementation strategies researches of singing teaching as well as hopes and conclusion.The introduction gives a specific analysis of the premises and backgrounds of this research and a detailed explanation of the basic core question and research methods. At the same time, it also explains the research ideas of this thesis together with its theoretical and practical values. In addition, the introduction contains the innovation part of this thesis. That is, 1, the research of the status of primary schools’ singing teaching;2, the research on the characteristics and types of children voices by using voice measurement; 3, offering specific implementation strategies of primary schools’ singing teaching and providing new ideas and considerations especially on the teaching methods.The literature in the second chapter is the theoretical basis of this study. In this chapter, i mainly use the method of documentary to explain the background of the music curriculum reform and review the development of singing teaching in our country based on the history of China’s music education.The chapter 3 discusses the design, process and results of the 2 major methods, survey method and test method. The study investigates the status of primary schools’ singing teaching by survey method and measures the development level of children singing ability by test method. The study has explored the discipline of the children range and the their singing ability in each period.The chapter 4, 5 and 6 are the main part of the thesis which are the exploration and thinking of objectives, significance, contents and the implementation strategies of primary schools’ singing teaching.Chapter 4 is the research of the objectives of the primary schools’ singing teaching. This chapter explains the author’s thinking of the objectives of the primary schools’ singing teaching by combining with the 3-dimension objective which is emotion, attitude and values, process and methods, knowledge and skills proposed by Fulltime System Compulsory Education Music Course Standard. At the same time, the study also explains the significance of primary schools’ singing teaching.Chapter 5 is the research of the contents of primary schools’ singing teaching. It considers the singing teaching as a method to improve the students’ comprehensive music ability. The study explores the contents of singing teaching which are feel and appreciation, presentation and creation, music and related culture proposed by Fulltime System Compulsory Education Music Course Standard on the basis of analysis of the case study of primary schools’ singing teaching.Chapter 6 is the discussion of the specific implementation strategies of primary schools’ singing teaching. It proposes some new strategies such as expanding teaching form, innovating teaching methods and improving the evaluation system based on measurement of children singing ability and level.The conclusion is the consideration of the status of primary schools’ singing teaching, the outlook of future development and the epilogue.