On The Application Of Service Learning To Harmony Teaching Reform In Normal Education

Since the 20th century, china's elementary education has started a thorough transformation of previous exam-oriented education into quality-oriented education. The advance of quality-oriented education at primary school and middle school has to be guaranteed by improving educators' intrinsic qualities. Thus the higher normal universities in china have recently highlighted their essential goal, i.e. educating students of all-round qualities, to which great importance has been attached. As the policy of quality-oriented education is carried out, the method has exerted its advantages at a great extent, to which a remarkable success is achieved in the elementary education practices of china and other countries. At present, service learning has been written into the new syllabus for primary schools and middle schools as well, enjoying a dominating status. For our domestic higher education, however, service learning has not been sufficiently adopted yet, consequently blocking the quality improvement of those who are going to teach at primary schools or middle schools after graduation, and limiting its use for elementary education as well. Therefore, service learning ought to be widely promoted in the higher education of China so as to meet the new educational needs. Despite the gratifying achievements in recent years, the music instruction of higher normal education still has some problems after a series of teaching reforms, for example, the stereotyped instruction, the outdated instructional means and the less activeness of students in study. With regard to the requirements for the music teachers of elementary education, the writer defines the feasibilities and enormous impetus of applying service learning to the harmony teaching of higher music instruction by investigating its specific reform plans. This thesis intends to focus on this concrete scheme of application by means of reading documents, comparative research and theoretical research, which will present such topics as related theories of service learning, worthwhile experience in using it and the current situation of harmony teaching in higher normal education.