Analysis Of My Country's Preschool Music Education From The Comparison Between Orff Schulwerk And Suzuki Method

Preschool education, as the primary education of a country, is indeed a cradle for future talents. As an important part of preschool education, preschool music education's implementation bears direct significance to children's growth and future. Nowadays, preschool music education in our country is in its reforming and developing period. In face of difficulties and challenges, we must have the courage to learn excellent experience from other countries. Orff Schulwerk and Suzuki Method are both of the four well-known music teaching methodologies in the 20th century, with the former appearing in German where music education had enjoyed mature development, and the later in Japan, just a sea away from us. With comparative analysis, we will make clear the differences and similarities between these two methodologies, so that we can borrow useful elements from them to solve the problems we encounter during the process of implementing music education. This thesis is expanded with comparative analysis of these two methodologies as the starting point, aiming to pave way for music education of preschool children in our country.This thesis tries to discuss with a large number of theoretical information and with practical observation. Meanwhile, it emphasis on the crossing and synthesizing of several subjects, taking musicology with pedagogy, sociology, psychology and other subjects to do comprehensive study. The main content is about the comparison between Orff Schulwerk and Suzuki Method. So we can get their respective characteristics and common features, and then search for how to implement our preschool music education from the comparison.The author notices that few people lay hands on comparative analysis of these two methodologies and there are no profound works and discourses, either. The suggestions and advice in the thesis are all based on the result of the comparative study of these two methodologies with the author's reflection. This paper consists of seven parts: Introduction; Literature Review (Chapter one); Comparative Study between Orff Schulwerk and Suzuki Method(Chapter two); Revelation on My Country's Preschool Music Education (Chapter three), Conclusion, References and Acknowledgements. Chapter One is devoted to general overview of the history and the states of music education of preschool children in our country as well as brief explanation of the two masters and their teaching methods; Chapter Two explores the comparative study from three aspects:background, content and practice; Chapter Three makes an analysis from the family and educational institutions, to bring a stone to the building of preschool children's music education in our country.