Review And Consideration Of The Music Curriculum Objective For Junior High School In China Since 1949

The research on the music curriculum objective system for general middle school is the important subject of scholastic music education theoretical research. The music curriculum objective is the further concretization of educational aims and the goal of school curriculum in connection with the own traits of music subject, and it is also the premise to establish, carry out and evaluate the music curriculum. Since the foundation of new China, the construction of the music curriculum objective in junior high school has past for more than fifty years along with the development of scholastic music educational practice. During the last more than fifty years, the government has ever issued six music teaching programs and a music curriculum standard successively, in which the music curriculum objective has been put forward to guide the scholastic music educational practices in various periods, during which plenty of experiences and lessons have been accumulated. In this paper the methods such as Citing Literature, Comparative Method, and Logic Analysis Method and so on have been used to carry on longitudinal comparative study to the developing process of the music curriculum objective for junior high school in China since the foundation of new China in 1949. On the basis of summarizing the development traits of music curriculum objective system for junior high school, the problems existing in the construction of the music curriculum objective for junior high school in China have been brought out and the countermeasures to further improve the music curriculum objective for junior high school have also been put forward.This paper is divided into the following four parts:1. The part of foreword, beginning with the background and significance of the selected topic, summarized the research about music curriculum objective in China and pointed out the research methods in this subject after defining the concept and meaning of music curriculum objective for junior high school.2. The second part is "Review of The Music Curriculum Objective for Junior High School in China since 1949", which was divided into three sections, viz. the review and longitudinal comparative analysis of the music curriculum objective for junior high school in China in three phases, and summarized the traits of music curriculum objectivein each phase.3. The third part is "The Development Traits of the Music Curriculum Objective for Junior High School in China", which made a conclusion to the holistic development traits of the music curriculum objective for junior high school in China based on the review and analysis in the second part.4. The fourth part is "The Main Problems of the Music Curriculum Objective for Junior High School in China", which mainly brought out the existing problems accumulated in the last more than 50 years of development in the music curriculum objective for junior high school in China and put forward the advice of studying and constructing the music curriculum objective for junior high school in China.This paper aims at carrying on examination and judgment again to the development of the music curriculum objective system for junior high school since the foundation of new China as well as inheriting scientifically on the basis of developing the useful and discarding the useless to provide useful reference for current and/or future construction of the music curriculum objective for junior high school and scholastic music curriculum reform in China.