On The Specialization Of Music Teachers' Education

In the current worldwide reform of education, people recognize that we must attach importance to teachers' education in order to impove the school education essentially and steadily. The world has paid much attention to the project of teachers' education, and commenced to cany out the reform of teachers' education. Through a long-term argument, the pedagogy group has come to a conclusion that teachers are featured by the basic traits of professionals, and teaching which is executed by teachers is also provided with the basic characteristics of the"profession". Hence, we consider that teachers' education is to be specialized. Through comparative studies, we find that specialization is regarded as the focus of teachers' education reform in the developed countries. But in China, it has been paid comparatively less attention to. This essay is to introduce the conception of "specialization of teachers' education" into music education, and to explore a rational framework of the development of the specialization of teachers' education in China, according to the special characteristics of the subject of music.In the studies of the music teachers' education, researches were limited to the discussion of pre-job education of music teachers. In this essay, the author tries to break through the conventional form, and, under the guidance of the concept of "lifelong development" of teachers, to dealwith the issue with equal attention to the pre-job education and the in-the-job education of music teachers, and the attestation system of music teachers' qualification. The whole essay consists of three parts, with the first part talking about the meaning and the ami of specialization of music teachers' education; the second part analyzing the present situation and problems of the music teachers' education hi China; the third part putting forward the integrated scheme of specialization of music teacher's education.