Chinese traditional music teaching in multicultural education / Wen Jingjing

Multicultural education emphasizes that schools should fully respect the cultures of other peoples and promote mutual understanding among different cultural groups, while shaping students' sharing through the dominant culture. Since its reform and opening up in 1978, China has been actively integrating into the world system. Through multicultural education in schooling, students can learn about and experience the unique cultures of different countries and ethnic groups around the world. In the music classroom, they can experience not only traditional Chinese music, but also perceive the music of other outstanding nationalities. However, from the current music classroom teaching in primary and secondary schools in China, due to the long-term advocacy of Western music culture, students' perceived interest in learning traditional Chinese music is lower than that of Western music, and teachers often neglect the in-depth teaching of traditional music. Traditional Chinese music is the product of the accumulation of excellent culture in China for thousands of years. In the context of multicultural education, traditional music should be a very important part of it. This study aims to explore how to teach Chinese traditional music more effectively in primary and secondary school music classrooms, so as to promote the study of music from other countries or ethnic groups, and also to provide valuable references for multicultural music education in China.