The Impact of Music Education on Children’s Cognitive Development:From Traditional Classrooms to Modern Digital Platforms

Music education has long been debated for its influence on children’s cognitive development,particularly regarding their thinking methods and adaptability.This article synthesizes research data to examine the cognitive benefits of music instruction,including increased IQ,language proficiency,memory,and attention.Traditional face-to-face training,while personalized and socially interactive,faces limitations such as budget constraints and accessibility.Modern digital platforms offer individualized learning paths with AI-driven feedback but may lack necessary interpersonal interaction.This paper proposes a hybrid approach to music education,integrating traditional and digital methods to maximize cognitive gains.Further research is recommended to explore the implementation of these integrated learning strategies in varied educational settings.

The Role of Music in Multicultural Education:A Tool for Promoting Cultural Understanding and Inclusion

In this essay,it will be examined how music can be a powerful tool in multicultural education in promoting humanity and cultural sensitivity.As classroom diversity increases,the challenge lies with educators to ensure that an equal and appropriate learning environment for all students with cultural sensitivity is maintained.To address this problem,therefore,the study explores how music may be effectively incorporated into intercultural education approaches.This paper has evidence that music is a language that has transcended cultures and promotes tolerance,appreciation,and acceptance of diversity through a synthesis of literature and examples.Several implications posit that music can make people feel they belong,enhance the relations of people from diverse cultures,and provide a practical way of learning about other cultures.The potential of music as a tool to engage social justice issues and liberate oppressed groups is also discussed in this research.It exists,but with caution to cultural appropriation and stereotyping of students,thus requiring educators to be sensitive and socially-apperceived on the best practice ways on how to integrate music into classrooms.The end explains how music helps in nurturing a generation of embracing the world,more sensitive and more inclined to the happenings in society to create a society that will be more sensitive and tolerant with the growing society which is diversifying.Therefore,the current article recommends further exploration and development of music-facilitated/inclined pedagogy of ME in hopefully enhancing cultural consciousness/sensitivity and fostering more social integration.

The Impact of Western Scholars on the Music Education of the Jingpo Ethnic Group in Yunnan,China

This research attempts to uncover the influence of Western scholars’activities on music education in the Jingpo areas of Dehong Dai-Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture in western Yunnan,China,during the early 20th century.The differences exist in the cultures,languages,and beliefs of the various ethnic groups in Yunnan.As such,systematic basic education is difficult to carry out in order,especially music education.However,this phenomenon changed in the early 20th century with the arrival of Western scholars.This study will analyze existing literature and data collected in fieldwork to trace the origins of Western music education in the Jingpo areas.In addition,the study intends to explore the localized and modernized music education model used by Western scholars for Jingpo.Furthermore,this research may help broaden the understanding of minority communities to the development of music education policies that precede the implementation of regulations.Additionally,it seeks to raise awareness of the music of ethnic minority groups worldwide and to achieve equality of musical education resources in ethnic minority areas as much as possible.

The Impact of Contextual Teaching Method on Sichuan Folk Song Education and Students’Musical Expressiveness

This study explores the application of the contextual teaching method in Sichuan folk song education and its impact on students’musical expressiveness.By incorporating contextual teaching methods in music classes,this research investigates the effectiveness of this approach in enhancing students’understanding of Sichuan folk songs and improving their musical expressiveness and emotional expression.A mixed-method research approach is employed,utilizing classroom observations,questionnaires,interviews,and statistical analysis to assess the practical outcomes of contextual teaching in folk song education.

Study on the Influence of AI Composition Software on Students'Creative Ability in Music Education

Generative AI technology for human-assisted tools has made great strides in recent years,and studying the impact of this technology on students'compositional abilities plays an important role in promoting changes in music education.Previous studies have focused on the performance of music composition software itself in terms of composition,with less consideration given to the impact of creators'compositional ability after using assistive composition tools.Thus,this paper designs a controlled experiment to investigate the changes in students'compositional ability before and after using AI composition tools.This paper finds that students'compositional abilities in all areas of composition improved to varying degrees after using AI composition tools.This paper compares the differences in compositional abilities of students with and without the education of AI composition tools,which has practical implications for vigorously promoting the adoption of AI composition tools in university music education teaching.

The Contribution of Vocal Music Education in Colleges and Universities to Cultural Inheritance and Innovation

The importance of education and cultural inheritance is becoming increasingly prominent.Through literature review and empirical research,combining quantitative data and qualitative analysis,this paper assesses the teaching methods,curriculum,and student interest and participation in vocal music education in colleges and universities.The study found that vocal music education played a positive role in increasing students’participation in cultural activities,enhancing their identification with traditional music and improving their skills,despite problems such as inadequate teaching systems and homogenized curricula.In particular,the participation rate of students in cultural activities before and after the educational changes increased significantly from 31–54.7%to 62.4–83.6%,indicating that vocal music education can effectively stimulate students’enthusiasm for cultural participation.In addition,the strengthening of the teaching staff and innovations in teaching methods,such as the application of multimedia and virtual reality technologies,provide students with richer learning experiences and personalized learning paths.

The Application Value and Strategy of Red Music Culture in Ideological and Political Education in Primary and Secondary Schools

As an important carrier of red culture,red music culture carries the glorious history of revolution,construction,and reform led by the Communist Party of China(CPC),and has significant functional value in cultivating students’ideals,values,and cultural identity,as well as patriotic consciousness and national pride.However,the integration of red music culture into the ideological and political education of primary and secondary schools faces the dilemmas of low cultivation awareness,insufficient excavation of resources,and lack of optimization of atmosphere and field.In view of these problems,the strategies of enhancing cultivation awareness,excavating the resources in-depth,and creating a positive atmosphere and field provide new ideas and methods for ideological and political education in primary and secondary schools.

Construction of Psychological Adjustment Function Model of Music Education Based on Emotional Tendency Analysis

In the face offierce competition in the social environment,mental health problems gradually get the attention of the public,in order to achieve accurate mental health data analysis,the construction of music education is based on emotional tendency analysis of psychological adjustment function model.Design emotional tendency analysis of music education psychological adjustment function architecture,music teaching goal as psychological adjust-ment function architecture building orientation,music teaching content as a foundation for psychological adjust-ment function architecture and music teaching process as a psychological adjustment function architecture building,music teaching evaluation as the key of building key regulating function architecture,Establish a core literacy oriented evaluation system.Different evaluation methods were used to obtain the evaluation results.Four levels of psychological adjustment function model of music education are designed,and the psychological adjust-ment function of music education is put forward,thus completing the construction of psychological adjustment function model of music education.The experimental results show that the absolute value of the data acquisition error of the designed model is minimum,which is not more than 0.2.It is less affected by a bad coefficient and has good performance.It can quickly converge to the best state in the actual prediction process and has a strong con-vergence ability.

The Need for Music as a Learner＇s Characteristic Affecting the Effects of Educational Films

This paper is about the development of applications for a more specific and therefore more effective teaching and instructional technology usage in classrooms. It investigates the relationship between a lack of music in educational films and its effect on film evaluation and interest gain in educational film topics. Results of the presented study raise the assumption of a need for music as central characteristic of learners related to the effects of educational science films： Basically, it shows that the evaluation of educational films is based on emotional as well as on factual criteria and that both dimensions are positively related to the interest of learners in the film content. Further it shows that learners with need for music, compared to their classmates that do not state a need for music, exhibit a significant worse evaluation on the film factual characteristics and a reduced class performance, as measured by reduced interest in the film topic, the research area and the motivation to carry out follow-up research on the topic. Implications are discussed.

Thinkings on Narrowing the Music Education Gap Between Urban and Rural Areas--On the Case of the Urban and Rural Music Education in Gaocheng, Hebei Province

Nowadays, the development of quality education has always been attached great importance in China, of which the music education has been an important part. However, serious polarization of the urban and rural basic music education leads to all sorts of differences, thus seriously affecting the overall improvement of quality of all people. To find out the problems and the reasons of the backward in rural basic music education, this paper makes an analysis of the differences between urban and rural basic education development through a survey and a study of basic situation in music education of urban and rural elementary school in Gaocheng, Hebei province, and then puts forward thinkings and suggestions about narrowing the urban-rural music education gap on the basis of the analysis of internal and extemal problems.

Using Five Music Instructional Methods to Illustrate the Social Constructive Music Teaching Framework in Hong Kong Primary Level Music Education

Music education under the frame name of arts education has been integrated into the primary and secondary education curriculums in Hong Kong for more than 20 years,starting from 2001,the year of launching the Learning to Learn curriculum for the reconstruction of the education system for the younger generation.Music education,embedded into the arts education,was therefore regarded as one of the key subjects to cultivate and uplift student holistic development,focusing on aesthetic skill training and moral growth development.This research was an exploration study of music teaching practices from two private international and two general public school music teachers at the primary school level.The value of this study rested on borrowing the idea of Shulman’s pedagogical content knowledge(PCK)principle to create a social constructivist music teaching framework from five commonly-used instructional methods,namely,Orff,Kodaly,Dalcrozes,Suzuki,and Gordon’s approaches.Based on the evaluations of these four case studies,hypotheses on the differences in the PCK were tested with the types of schools and found to be no difference.The preliminary results suggested that music teachers in private international schools had similar pedagogical approaches to music instruction to teachers in aided-public schools.Additionally,the modeling,guiding,and training approach was identified as a grounded teaching method for music education at the primary school level regardless of different types of schools.Other implications like the further development of the framework were discussed.

Measurement invariance and latent mean differences of the Chinese version physical activity self-efficacy scale across gender and education levels

Background: Self-efficacy has been identified as an important determinant of youth's behavior change including physical activity(PA) participation. However, the dimensionality check of a PA self-efficacy scale has rarely been conducted in China. The current study aims to examine(1) the unidimensionality of a shortened Chinese version of PA self-efficacy scale(S-PASESC);(2) the measurement invariance of S-PASESC across gender and levels of education;(3) the latent factor mean difference between gender and levels of education;(4) the direct effects of self-efficacy on PA by different gender and education levels; and(5) the comparisons of the direct effects of self-efficacy on PA across gender and education levels.Methods: The participants were 5 th through 11 th grade public school students recruited from 7 cities located in different geographic regions of China. The final data include a total of 3003 participants(49.7% boys) who have completed the scales.Results: Confirmatory factor analysis(CFA) test supported the unidimensionality of S-PASESC. The S-PASESC is invariant across gender and 3 levels of education at both configural, full metric, and full scalar levels. Findings from latent mean comparisons showed that boys reported higher PA self-efficacy than girls. Students' perceived PA self-efficacy tend to decrease from elementary to high school. Finally, self-efficacy positively related to PA by groups of different gender and education levels and the relationship between self-efficacy and PA is stronger among middle school boys than girls.Conclusion: Findings suggest S-PASESC is a valid scale for measuring Chinese students' PA self-efficacy.

Educational Practices in the Model of Music Learning Theory of E. Edwin Gordon： An Observational Research

This paper analyzes the supervision activity, to which educators and teachers enrolled with AIGAM （Gordon Italian Association for the Musical Learning） are subject to every year and intends to verify the application of those principles expressed in the learning model of the MLT （Music Learning Theory） developed by educational psychologist E. Edwin Gordon （1989, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2007） and promoted internationally by various institutions and organizations specifically accredited. It describes the influence of the videotaped supervision on the process, functions of monitoring, and evaluation of educational practices, starting with an empirical model that has guided the interventions in a study of supervision on training aimed at consolidating and developing professional skills in music education in early childhood. This paper sought to understand： the kind of practices, interactions, communications developing during an educational actions, the existence of a consistent relationship between the principles expressed in the MLT and their application, the type and benefits of supervision performed by of video recording on stakeholders in terms of change in professional behavior, and finally whether the active supervision could be comparable with other kinds of approaches.

A Brief Analysis of the Application of Situational Teaching Method in Primary School Music Class

Music situational teaching method aims to mobilize the students’thoughts in a natural state so as to enhance the attractiveness and efficiency of music classes.In the process of this method,some specific situational are designed according to the characteristics of music and under the guidance of psychology,methodology,pedagogy and other theories,and various sensory organs are employed.Different from traditional teaching method,situational teaching method creates learning situational for students,which is consistent with the characteristics of primary school students’physical and mental development and maximizes students’experience and feeling of music.

Study on the Humanity of Ordinary Music Education in China in Modern Times

The modern time of China is the most brilliant of the whole Chinese history,during which China was reduced from the feudal society to the semi-colonial and semi-feudal society and then a new China with the socialist system was founded after indomitable struggle.In such a context,the whole society experienced unsmooth development;while the music theories and music education soared with the invasion of capitalism.On the one hand,foreigners invaded China;on the other hand,they brought advanced music culture,promoting the music culture of China,which had stagnated for about two thousand years.This paper attempts to study the development path of music education in modern China from the perspective of development process.

Enlightenment of Confucian Thoughts of Music Education on Contemporary General Music Education

In the pre-Qin period,Confucius proposed six subjects namely the etiquette,music,archery,driving,literacy,and calculation.Among the six subjects,music was ranked the second.Among them,traditional education in China can fully reflect the importance of music education,and the essence and core of music education can be reflected from the requirements of aesthetic education.In recent years,with the continuous development and improvement of production and life,the theme of education in today’s society has changed,and quality education is the center and focus of education today.Moreover,people begin to focus on how to inherit and publicize the traditional music culture.As the music culture is of great importance,many people are encouraged to continue to practice and publicize the traditional music.The main point of this article is Confucian theory of music education.

Enhancing Music Learning With Digital Tools： A Case Study of a Student Using iSCORE

iSCORE is a digital tool, available without charge, which was designed for students who take lessons from independent music teachers. One of the challenges of this learning format is that students must develop strategies to practice on their own between lessons, iSCORE can help meet that challenge by supporting students as they develop strategies for self-regulation to enhance their goal-setting, practice strategies, and abilities to reflect and critique their progress. This paper describes a case study of a 15-year-old pianist who learned to play a difficult piece of repertoire by using iSCORE to archive and compare performances, develop strategies, and reflect on his learning.

On the Application of "Music Theater Course" in Music Aesthetic Education

Music aesthetic education enjoys a long history in both East and West.With the rise and development of the post-modern trend in the 21st century,traditional music aesthetic education,which mainly focused on the ability to listen,feel and appreciate in the past,after inspired by the new curriculum idea,it now borrows the music theater model of creation,performance and appreciation.And it also adopts cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural ideas in training and business performance to find new forms of beauty.By the exploration and interpretation of sound,limbs,and space,actors can develop their vision,ability to communicate and reflect,self-identity,wisdom,caring for human beings,and respect for different civilizations.Furthermore,useful reference can be provided for the theoretical and practical research of music aesthetic education.

Early Exploration and Practice of Professional Music Education during China's Modern Period 1912-1919

Cai Yuanpei, the first Minister of Education, attached great importance to "aesthetic education", which was a key part of the new education aims developed under his guidance. It was Cai's focus on "aesthetic education" and "education" that Beijing University Music Research Society and National Beijing Girls' Higher Normal School and the like began to explore and practice the modern Chinese professional music education.

Research on the Function of Music in College Education

College students are the hope of national development and future. College education is an important position for college students to grow and grow up. Music is an indispensable artistic existence in College education. The cultivation of college students has become a problem that colleges and universities must face. Their new characteristics and ideas have brought new challenges to the education of colleges and universities. As the most active and energetic college students of the new generation, their training is not only related to their all-round development, but also directly affects the international competitiveness and development strength of countries in the 21st century. Therefore, it is an urgent and necessary direction to explore the new work of higher education. And music plays an extremely important role in shaping the personality charm of modern college students and their growth and success.