In order to meet the requirements of readers, this journal published Mr. Jin's lecture on "Topic Selection and Writing of Music Education Papers" in a serial way from this issue, in order to provide dinner for readers.
Thesis, one of the argumentative styles, is an article genre that expresses scientific research achievements and demonstrates scientific views.
Thesis is the textual expression of human beings' understanding and study of the objective world in all fields and disciplines, from phenomena to essence, from characteristics to laws. As a common style, the thesis is quite extensive in content, form, method, research field and application object. According to different research fields and disciplines, papers can be divided into natural science papers and social science papers. Natural science papers include science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, forestry and other disciplines; Social science papers include philosophy, politics, economy, history, education, psychology, law, aesthetics, literature, art, musicology, religion, military science and so on.
Papers on pedagogy are called pedagogy papers, musicology papers are called music papers, and music pedagogy papers are called music education papers. Music pedagogy is a branch of pedagogy and musicology. Music education thesis, as a kind of thesis, is an article genre that studies and discusses the problems in the field of music education, reveals the principles and laws of music education, and expounds the ideas, concepts, objectives, contents, forms and methods of music education.
According to its theme, music education papers can be divided into three major areas: first, the scope of music education ideas and concepts; Second, the scope of music education theory and law; The third is the practice and operation scope of music education. Judging from the actual situation of music education in China, all three fields have their own corresponding concern groups. Relatively speaking, the leaders and experts of music education in the first district pay more attention to it, the second district is the field that music education experts, scholars, professors and researchers mainly think about and set foot in, and the third district is mainly music teachers (especially music teachers in primary and secondary schools).
Music education papers have the basic characteristics of theory, science, originality and education.
First of all, in theory
Theory is the advanced stage of human cognition. This paper discusses and demonstrates this "advanced stage of human cognition"-the problem of objective laws. Because the music education thesis is the author's research, understanding and revelation of some objective laws of music education, which is theoretical. There are many kinds of music education papers, and the theoretical nature of music education papers can only be reflected by discussing music education issues from an academic perspective. Specifically:
1. The viewpoints put forward and expounded in this paper should have universal significance, which are summarized and refined from a wide range of music education phenomena, and reflect not the general music education phenomena and music education process, but the understanding of the essence and laws of music education.
Second, the analysis and demonstration of problems, the observation and processing of information, and the results and conclusions reached should be carried out from a theoretical height to form certain scientific opinions, rather than superficial and phenomenal statements. In other words, the process of argumentation and reasoning must be rigorous, from asking questions, analyzing problems to solving problems, all contents must be included in a rigorous reasoning process.
Thirdly, the author should make a systematic and complete exposition of the questions and viewpoints raised, including the exposition of basic principles, the quotation of classic works and authoritative judgment, so as to make the article convincing and have a certain academic level. In addition, the theoretical nature of the paper is also reflected in the strength and depth of the discussion, which makes the music education discussed more theoretical and more conducive to guiding the practice of music education.
Second, it is scientific.
Science is a correct reflection of objective reality and its laws, a knowledge system expressed through logical thinking forms such as concepts, judgments, assumptions and reasoning, and a general term for all kinds of knowledge that constitute a theoretical system.
Scientific nature is the basis of forming a thesis. The scientific nature of music education papers is mainly manifested in arguments, arguments and arguments.
1. The argument comes from the objective materials of music education, and it is not subjective and arbitrary, and it is independent of people's will. The thesis and conclusion provide knowledge about the true features and general laws of music education, so they can stand the test of music education practice and explain the objective phenomenon of music education, which is of universal significance in the field of music education.
This requires the author of music education papers to have a scientific spirit of exploration and a rigorous learning attitude. Under the guidance of scientific world outlook and methodology, the author uses relevant professional knowledge to scientifically analyze the objective situation and causal relationship of the research object, thus revealing the nature of things and their development laws, and expressing them in the form of scientific conclusions and theories with universal significance, so as to ensure the scientificity of the paper's views.
2. The argument should be true, conclusive, typical and sufficient, which can strongly support the argument. The argument is enough to prove the point, and the argument is conclusive and convincing. In other words, the reliability of the demonstration materials determines the scientific nature of the paper. The reliability mentioned here is manifested in two aspects: one is quantity and the other is quality. The arguments must be sufficient, and isolated evidence is unreliable; The argument must be true, only subjective speculation is unreliable. For example, figures should be accurate and facts should be conclusive. And accurate and conclusive arguments are often concrete, and sometimes even data obtained through scientific measurement. It should be pointed out that all wrong arguments are the enemies of the paper and the performance of pseudoscience.
3. The argument is rigorous, the logic is rigorous, it can stand scrutiny, and it highlights the essence of the problem. In other words, the process of argumentation and reasoning should consider the problem as a whole and comprehensively, and have a sense of the overall situation and overall planning. The layout of the article is well designed, the level is clear, and it echoes before and after; Clear analysis, strict logic and nuance. In a word, music education papers are the crystallization of science and down-to-earth knowledge.
Third, originality.
Innovation is the life of scientific research, especially in paper writing. Because the significance of scientific research lies in exploring the unknown world, the originality of music education papers is very important. Borrow a famous saying of Balzac, a French writer: The first person who describes a woman with flowers is a genius, the second is a mediocrity, and the third is a fool. Scientific research is the most taboo to follow the footsteps of others and listen to their suggestions. Similarly, the exploration of music education theory and practice also opposes parroting. In other words, the originality of music education papers should be reflected in a "new" word, new topics, new ideas, new materials, new methods, new forms, new angles and so on. These "new" represent a unique, unique and original creation, which has never been put forward and used before and has unique characteristics.
Specifically, the originality of music education papers is mainly manifested in the following aspects:
1. Establishment of a new theory. The paper puts forward problems that others have not involved and studied, and fills the academic gap of predecessors. For example, some papers systematically study the teaching rules of basic music education (such as "Introduction to Music Education in Ordinary Schools"); Some papers have made a holistic theoretical discussion on art education (for example, On Art Education). There are also papers that have done relevant research on specific issues such as evaluation or psychology, such as "Research on Music Teaching Evaluation" and "Research on Music Psychological Development of Primary and Secondary School Students". Because these studies have never been done before, this kind of work, which fills the gap in the history of music pedagogy, has high academic value.