Professor Cao Li is a music educator in China. She has worked hard in the hall of music education for more than 50 years. This book is elaborated from four parts: music education and curriculum construction research, music education psychology research, music education theory and practice research, and music teacher team construction research. This is not only an anthology recording the achievements of Cao Li's personal academic struggle, but also a witness and representative of the emergence, development and prosperity of China's music pedagogy since 1980s. This book has strong guidance and teaching practicability for music teachers in the front line of education.
First, learn to seek truth and practice to seek truth.
Teaching and educating people is the bounden duty of teachers. Teacher Cao Li has been engaged in music teaching and teaching research in primary schools, middle schools and universities for more than 50 years. Besides studying hard in teaching practice to enrich her teaching experience, she also pays attention to the study and research of basic music theory. In the book, I saw her passion for music education, her love for children and her sense of responsibility for music education. In many years of teaching, Mr. Cao pays attention to learning, is good at summing up teaching experience and thinking about teaching problems. With the emergence of problems and the gains and losses of teaching, she publishes papers, delves into topics, attends lectures, attends classes, evaluates classes, and guides students ... She seems to have endless energy and enthusiasm, and can devote herself wholeheartedly to the music education she loves. Cao Lao is a music educator who walks out of practice. Her research experience has brought us a lot of enlightenment: music educators must be based on the practice of education and teaching, and only by continuous learning can they enrich themselves and improve themselves, so as to give children a better music education.
In the eyes of ordinary people, music teachers are good at singing and dancing, and they are carefree and happy. Many people think that music teachers are not highly educated and can only play the piano, sing and dance. Maybe a small number of music teachers also think so. Anyway, there is no exam in music class, so you can do whatever you want. In fact, teachers in any subject should have profound professional knowledge and extensive knowledge. Only by persuading students and yourself can students be interested in your class and music. Suhomlinski said: "Music education-this is not to train musicians, but to train people first." It can be understood that music education is about the inevitable connection between the music world and the human world, and in this process, people's hearts, guided by the aesthetic way of music and influenced by the humanistic spirit of music, realize the true meaning of life, so as to vent their anxiety, dispel their worries and create and sublimate the quality of life through experience and reflection. Let the students go with a hope and a little dream. Life is full of vitality because of this hope, and life is moved and comforted by this enrichment, so as to cultivate and develop individual sensitivity, appreciation, imagination and creativity to beauty and complete the shaping of human nature. This shows that the burden of our music teacher is not light!
Second, interest and curiosity are the motivation of children's music learning.
Psychology has proved that interest is the only motivation for children to learn actively. What is interest? From a psychological point of view, interest is a psychological tendency to try to know and explore something. It is produced by acquiring this knowledge and satisfying emotional experience. What are the ways to get interested in music?
First, the interest in music is produced in the process of pursuing the beauty of music. Beautiful things not only make people feel beautiful, but also are the source of interest. For example, if you listen to a beautiful song, will you hum along? Do you want to learn? Can you sing it yourself? This is the inherent beauty of music and an important factor that arouses students' strong interest.
Second, interest is in the process of exploration and creation. Interest and creativity are two interactive factors. For example, children will be interested in knocking on various objects. Children's interest in music also begins with the exploration of different sounds. The music curriculum standard puts forward that students should explore the sounds in life and cultivate their interest in music and their perception of sound, which is in line with the characteristics of children's music acceptance psychology.
In addition, in childhood, children's cognitive and thinking abilities are limited, and they can't make a rational judgment on something, nor can they do it for a certain need like adults. They can only rely on their own interests, and this interest is not lasting and easy to change. The same is true of interest in music, so we should always stimulate students' interest in learning music.
Third, strive for self-improvement and have no regrets.
Cao Lao's special experience from primary school teacher to university professor, from teaching researcher to famous scholar shows that she works hard at every step. When she was a primary school teacher, she seized every opportunity to make her children like music lessons and tried her best to master the characteristics of children of different ages and grades to work. When he was a university professor, although his post changed and his teaching object changed, in just three days, with persistence, diligence and enthusiasm, Cao Lao learned solfeggio and music theory, and the teaching effect was really good. Based on the successful experience of primary school music education and teaching, Cao Lao combined the essence of basic and normal music education and teaching, created a brand-new and full of vitality music education and teaching method, and formed a unique art of music teaching.
Cao Lao was equally wonderful when he was a teaching researcher. She organized educational activities, compiled music teaching materials and discussed educational methods, and her work was carried out vividly. 1988 when the national music education project was launched, Cao Lao served as the head of the music research group of the seventh and eighth five-year national education science key projects. The project she organized filled the gap in the field of music education in China, thus establishing a young and energetic new discipline, changing the backward situation that only music teaching method or textbook teaching method was used in the previous normal music education discipline system, and has been greatly improved. It can be said that Cao Lao has made historic and outstanding contributions to music education in China. Besides, she is a prolific scholar. She has published many books and papers. For her, learning is endless! She doesn't want to enjoy temporary success, she has endless pursuit of career!
An old horse crouches, aiming at a thousand miles. Teacher Cao Li is a music educator who is divorced from practice. Her research on music pedagogy has gone through the process from germination to initial formation, and then to deepening. It has gone through the process from practice to theory, and then from theory to practice. Her research experience has brought me endless enlightenment!