미국의 학교음악교육에 다문화주의에 대한 연구

Abstract

Many established curricular programs are undergoing revision to meet the needs of children growing up in a changing society. Music is no exception. If schools are the vehicles through which children are presented with the knowledge and values of a given nation, then the contemporary music program should offer to children the opportunities to experience a broad sampling of the world's musical traditions. The content of music curriculum in American schools has been associated with the art and traditional musics of Western Europe. Since the several substantial movement of music educators trigger the direction of multicultural music education, the present music programs provide the world of music that offers a comprehensive view of the sounds, functions, and meanings of music globally and the many subcultures of a single nation. In the efforts to achieve the contemporary curricular goals of multiculturalism, it is important to analyze the historical backgrounds, the design of an curriculum models and textbooks. The musical expression of groups of people are the focus of multicultural music education, where children are offered active musical and social experience of one and then another musical culture. Music education based on the educational concepts of multiculturalism provides children with knowledge of how groups of people organize the elements of music in unique models of musical expression. In terms of implementing educational approach towards multicultural music education, students should always be exposed to look at music in the framework of its culture. Students should understand fundamental music concepts of another culture but also what the society in question thinks music is, what it can do, how it may be used, and the kinds of events at which it is performed, that is, a music itself and behavior, the ideas and beliefs about music in cultural contexts.