Challenges and visions in school music education: Focusing on Chinese and Lithuanian realities

Main Article Content

Jolanta Lasauskiene
Youdi Sun

Abstract

This article focuses on music education in Chinese and Lithuanian schools, especially on the latest reforms of the national music curriculum for basic and general education. Due to the original reasons and historical development in the east and west, the philosophies of educations are different, resulting in differences in concepts of education, goals of education, methods of education, roles of teachers and students. The process of collecting information for music education in Lithuania and China will be explained in order to gain insight into specific issues related to each country. The resulting similarities and differences between Chinese and Lithuanian school music education are reported, and suggestions for basic and teacher education improvement are discussed. Most importantly, the findings of this study have highlighted that the notions of school music education in Lithuania and China are insignificantly different.


Keywords: Chinese general music education, music curriculum, music activities, Lithuanian general music education.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Article Details

How to Cite
Lasauskiene, J., & Sun, Y. (2019). Challenges and visions in school music education: Focusing on Chinese and Lithuanian realities. New Trends and Issues Proceedings on Humanities and Social Sciences, 6(1), 38–46. https://doi.org/10.18844/prosoc.v6i1.4153
Section
Articles
Author Biography

Jolanta Lasauskiene, Education Academy, Vytautas Magnus University, Vilnius, Lithuania

Assoc. Prof. Dr.

Faculty of Education

Department of Music