The theoretical source of the combination of music education and national defense education is pedagogy principle, system theory and synergetics. China's socialist education is a comprehensive quality education, including moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic and labor aspects. They are connected together to form a whole. They are unified in one person, and all aspects of human development as a whole exist in a unified structure. They are interpenetrating, and it is this interpenetrating relationship (pregnancy relationship) that can promote each other.
Synergetics is a system science theory founded by Harken, a West German scholar. It mainly studies the coordination, synchronization, cooperation and complementarity among the elements of the system and between the system and the environment. Haken pointed out that a complex system consists of a large number of subsystems, which have both interaction and influence, as well as mutual restriction and cooperation. Under certain conditions, due to this interaction and cooperation, the system will form an organized structure with certain functions.
National defense education:
National defense education is a universal education for citizens to consolidate and strengthen national defense. National defense education and music education, mainly including national defense thoughts, national defense knowledge and national defense skills, belong to a subsystem of quality education system, and they exist in a unified structure. Music education contains many contents of national defense education, and its educational function, guiding ideology and educational objectives are interactive and related to some extent.
National defense education and music education belong to the content of quality education. Quality education aims at improving students' comprehensive quality in an all-round way and pursues educating people. It can be understood from the following aspects: First, quality education is the embodiment and deepening of the policy of all-round development of education. The system mainly includes five subsystems: ideological and moral education (including national defense education), cultural and scientific education (including music education), labor skills education, psychological education and physical education.