Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Rising China and Governing Aspirations for Cultural Politics, Music, and Education
- 3 The Struggle for Cultural Identity, School Education, and Music Education in Hong Kong
- 4 Music Education in Taiwan: Imagining the Local, the National, and the Global
- 5 Music Teachers’ Perspectives on Cultural and National Values in School Music Education in Greater China
- 6 Discussion: Rethinking the Transmission of Values and Music Cultures between Nationalism and Globalization in Music Education in Greater China
- 7 Recapitulation and Conclusion
- Appendix: Teacher Questionnaire
- Index
6 - Discussion: Rethinking the Transmission of Values and Music Cultures between Nationalism and Globalization in Music Education in Greater China
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 April 2021
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Rising China and Governing Aspirations for Cultural Politics, Music, and Education
- 3 The Struggle for Cultural Identity, School Education, and Music Education in Hong Kong
- 4 Music Education in Taiwan: Imagining the Local, the National, and the Global
- 5 Music Teachers’ Perspectives on Cultural and National Values in School Music Education in Greater China
- 6 Discussion: Rethinking the Transmission of Values and Music Cultures between Nationalism and Globalization in Music Education in Greater China
- 7 Recapitulation and Conclusion
- Appendix: Teacher Questionnaire
- Index
Summary
Abstract
Chapter Six advances readers’ understanding of the concepts of nationalism and globalization in music education not only by summarizing Chinese localities with different sociopolitical contexts but also by contrasting these experiences with those in other parts of the world. At present, the availability of a vast range of local, national, and global cultures throughout the world goes hand-in-hand with the associated tendencies of globalization. The theoretical significance of this book is the reframing of major concerns of comparative education around the dynamics of national and global forces in order to provide insight into, and new explanations for, changes in national and international systems and relations and how they result in changes in values and music cultures in school education and teacher education.
Keywords: transmission of values, comparative education, Greater China, music cultures, teacher education
The topic of values has been important in educational, philosophical, psychological, and sociological research for over a century. Cultures have certain values, beliefs, customs, and social behaviours, whereas societies encompass people who share mutual values and beliefs. The term ‘culture’ conveys a system of values, beliefs, and symbols – a system analytically discernible from ‘society’, which includes groups, roles, and norms (see Durkheim 1964; Thompson 1998). Hofstede's discussion of cultural values (1991) identified the dominance of cultural values over behaviours and acknowledged that cultural values communicate and sustain particular norms of interaction and understanding, which are emulated in the communicative behaviours of individuals (also see Hofstede 2001). Stuart Hall produced an impressive body of work on the relationship between culture and power and on the formative role of culture as a political and educational practice, produced and mediated within different social contexts, spatial relations, and historical junctures (see Giroux 2000). Foucault (1982, 1998) understood both power and knowledge as textual: power and knowledge are not seen as independent entities but are inextricably intertwined. Meanwhile, knowledge and culture simultaneously state the condition of the world and reproduce political beliefs and values (Giroux 2000; also see Apple 1996, 2014; Hall 1997).
Values are the guiding force of education as well as of teaching and learning school subjects, including the humanities, commerce, and science.
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- Globalization, Nationalism, and Music Education in the Twenty-First Century in Greater China , pp. 273 - 300Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2021