Return Of 'Human Center' Through The Vocal Music Education

Compared with the musical education in the early 20th century when school songs were pervasive, the research on musical education in our country has gained much progress until now. However, we still should attach importance to the research on the essence and the purpose of vocal music education. For this reason, this paper attempts to do some research into the essential problem "human oriented", which is the ultimate purpose of the vocal music education. By applying the theory of philosophy, musicology and pedagogy and using the method of in-depth inveistigation and literature review, the author analyzes the content of the vocal music education, the organization forms and two main parts of the vocal music education and concludes that the vocal music education is the practice of human, the practice about human and the practice for human. Also the author analyzes the essence of vocal music arts as well as the essence and function of vocal music education and draws the conclusion that "human oriented" should be insisted through the education belief and value orientation in vocal music education. Thus, the author puts forward the new idea that "human oriented" can be realized in the vocal music education activities and hopes this paper can provide certain theoretical foundation for the plan decision and concrete practice of vocal music education activity.This paper is mainly consisted of four parts:Chapter one:This chapter is the introduction of the paper and consists of the research ideas, the research methods and the creative thoughts of the paper.Chapter two:This chapter includes the definition of "human orientation return" and a brief historical review on it, maintaining the point of view that the concept of "human orientation return" in China's vocal music education is originated from Cai Yuanper's proposition on aesthetic educationChapter three:This chapter is analyzing the feasibility and necessity of "human orientation return" with two parts and from the perspectives of the content, organization form and the two main bodies of vocal music education, advocating that human beings, as the leading subjects of the activity, are capable of making use of vocal music education to serve for them through their efforts and that the nature of vocal art and the basic function of vocal music education determine the approach of "human orientation return".Chapter four:This chapter is the conclusion part which proposes the new idea on how human orientation return can be realized through the vocal education activity. By observing the current situation of the vocal education in China, the author uncovers and analyzes the problems in the present vocal education activity and puts forward new ideas and thoughts on the realization of human orientation return through vocal education activity.