Nanjing Music In The Local Junior High School Music Class In The Feasibility Research In Nanjing

In today's secondary school music education, how local music, as part of the local culture, could be developed well in a multicultural context, has become music education in China must confront and consider the situation. The new "Music Curriculum Standards" in China advocated to be rich in content in the culture of music education, stressed to guide students to be familiar with the their own culture through local music and musical activities, and declared to gradually expand and establish the perspectives of multiculturalism and cultural communication on the basis of equal, co-existent, and co-prosperous opportunities.The purpose of this study was to investigate the feasibility of developing and teaching a school-based curriculum of local music for the secondary school; to simultaneously explore the students' preferences, identity attitude, and understanding to local music.An action research was applied in this study. The subjects consisted of 146 seven-grade students at Nanjing secondary school in Nanjing, China. The researcher, as the music teacher, conducted a six week courses in the field, as well as the two-week survey and interviews. The research instruments contained a school-based curriculum of local music for the secondary school, based on Nanjing Bei-Ju Music (BJM)and Fangshan Drum Music(FDM), The Preference Rating Scales of Nanjing BJM and FDM, and The Achievement Test of Nanjing BJM and FDM, Open-ended Interviewing Questions. The expert validity, reliability, and item analysis were analyzed. The descriptive statistics and t-test, one-way ANOVA and x~2 test were applied to analyze the quantitative data. The interview, teaching observation, and reflection were also coded and analyzed.The Results indicated as follows:1. Teaching a school-based curriculum of local music for the secondary school could significantly improve the students' preferences, identity attitude, and understanding to local music, by a variety of vivid teaching ways such as performing, composing, and cooperating with senior local performance artists.2. It is the most effective ways to foster students' appreciation, absorption, inheritance and development in their own culture, through developing the resources of a school-based curriculum of local music, based on "Music Curriculum Standards" and bringing into school music courses in the contexture environment of local culture.