Training music teachers for multicultural education in South Africa

[摘要] English: The acknowledgment and appreciation of diversity in South Africa can onlycome about if all racial and ethnic groups of the nation are able tounderstand the similarities that bind them and the differences that distinguish them as entities of one (rainbow) nation. In this regard, the role of educationis primo facto.Thus, the need for a paradigm shift to multi cultural education cannot beoveremphasized. Music education, which still relies to a large extent, onEuro-centric attitudes and principles, has to redefine its purposes andprinciples to reflect multicultural dynamics of world musics. Couple with themulticultural demand in education in this country are the demands of OBEand curriculum 20005. With regard to these demands and the phenomenonof globalisation, a curriculum framework for training music teachers forMulticultural-outcome-based education in South Africa has been proposed.

[发布机构] University of the Free State