A Deep Insight Into Music Education Aesthetic Paradigm In Common School

The present music education in common school is under the thumb of aesthetic paradigm.In its broad definition, aesthetic paradigm includes the ideas and thinking of a large number of music practitioners and theorists. They hold the belief that aesthetical education should go before music education. However the problem facing them is how to turn music education into aesthetic one. The solution to it is: to move people and educate people with aesthetic fetching.There are three traditional patterns of aesthetic paradigm: paying attention to its educational function that is, molding people' s temperament; striving for performance, which is skillism; aiming at learning by practicing, which is the opposition to skillism.There are some insolvable problems facing the music education in regular schools. There is a popular saying that students are fond of music but take no interest in music lessons. As a result, the music lesson is given for its own sake. It' s becoming "performance" for few people.If we reconsider music education based on modern western philosophy, postmodern pedagogy and curriculum, comparative musicology, anthropology of culture, anthropology of music, we will find that the aesthetic paradigm of music education must be broken through, realizing the changing of culture. We should place the knowledge of culture on the basis of music educationand make the appreciation of beauty in place.To realize this goal, we should behave like the following: first, we should enlarge and rebuild the basis of this theory based on absorbing the research fruits of other field such as humanity and society, in order to keep it alive. Musicology, a basic subject of music education, is not the course limited by western musical trend, but the anthropology of music that includes all the folk music of times. Second, our theory should come from practice, which is based on reality instead of theory research.