Combination: Moral Education And Music Education

Moral education and music education are main elements in schooleducation. The former aims to develop the students' moral quality,ideological quality and political quality, while the later deals with thestudents' capacity of appreciation of music and beauty, which is animportant way to fulfill aesthetic education or art education. Moraleducation and music education are greatly beneficial to accomplishmentof students' quality structure. It is a profitable to illustrate the relationbetween moral education and music education, helping people understandprofoundly problems of moral education and music education. The closerelationship makes it possible to combine the two by taking music as amethod of moral education, and taking moral education as the target ofmusic education. The purpose of combination is to enrich moraleducation theories, increase moral education efficiency and expand theconcept of music education.The combination of moral education and music education is stronglytheoretically based. The statements about human's spirit and qualitystructure in life education theory and quality education theory, togetherwith the presentation of the moral implication in aesthetic education,support the combination of moral education and music education at somedegree. Some problems existed in the practice of moral education andmusic education, as low efficiency, lack of methodology and concept ofmusic education, indicate the importance of combination. The principlesof pedagogy also devote the possibility of combination. The consistencebetween moral education and music education in teaching elements asteaching subjects, teaching method, teaching target, testify the possibility.Moreover, the combination is of certain practical basis. The combinationof moral education and music education can be achieved by musiceducation environment in view of moral education and music teachingactivities in view of moral education. Besides, the music teachers'concerns about moral education are also helpful to combination of moraleducation and music education. On the basis of combination, the conceptof musical moral education is produced to pronounce the foundation of anew moral education theory, and a new moral education model as well.