Educators in China are facing challenges as a tug-of-war between local culture and global influences in Chinese early childhood music educations plays out. By exploring the situations of Hong Kong and Nanjing, the authors demonstrate a wide gap between policy and practice. The top-down policy from government officials is based on global views of education. It cannot work without providing the necessary support for teachers, parents, and children based on an understanding of local cultural beliefs. Four factors need to be considered in bridging this gap. The aims of the policy must be appropriate; resources necessary should be available, capacity of the practitioners has to be adequate, and the local environment should be carefully considere...
In the past, the music curricula of Hong Kong (HK), Mainland China and Taiwan have focused on Wester...
An important aim of this article is to show that, although Hong Kong’s overall education system has ...
As China has become an economic power in the past three decades, it has discovered that Western musi...
Many research studies call for quality arts experiences in early childhood education settings (Bamfo...
In this paper, we emphasise the value of music in early childhood teaching practice and we explore d...
This paper examines music education's legitimation of values as a means of preparing students for en...
This paper explores the implications of the processes of globalization, localization, and Sinophilia...
The purpose of this study is to examine the acculturation experience of first-generation Chinese Ame...
Recent studies of the localization and globalization of Taiwan’s music education cannot explain the ...
Fifteen years have passed since the recent early childhood education reform in Hong Kong, pre-primar...
In the last two decades, educational and curricular reforms in Hong Kong have been designed to prepa...
This book systematically reviews early childhood education (ECE) in Chinese societies in the context...
This chapter analyzes how ideas about multiple citizenship in Chinese school music education are put...
The purpose of this study was to describe practices of pre-school educators and to investigate the e...
This paper will attempt to compare interactions between social changes and the integration of nation...
In the past, the music curricula of Hong Kong (HK), Mainland China and Taiwan have focused on Wester...
An important aim of this article is to show that, although Hong Kong’s overall education system has ...
As China has become an economic power in the past three decades, it has discovered that Western musi...
Many research studies call for quality arts experiences in early childhood education settings (Bamfo...
In this paper, we emphasise the value of music in early childhood teaching practice and we explore d...
This paper examines music education's legitimation of values as a means of preparing students for en...
This paper explores the implications of the processes of globalization, localization, and Sinophilia...
The purpose of this study is to examine the acculturation experience of first-generation Chinese Ame...
Recent studies of the localization and globalization of Taiwan’s music education cannot explain the ...
Fifteen years have passed since the recent early childhood education reform in Hong Kong, pre-primar...
In the last two decades, educational and curricular reforms in Hong Kong have been designed to prepa...
This book systematically reviews early childhood education (ECE) in Chinese societies in the context...
This chapter analyzes how ideas about multiple citizenship in Chinese school music education are put...
The purpose of this study was to describe practices of pre-school educators and to investigate the e...
This paper will attempt to compare interactions between social changes and the integration of nation...
In the past, the music curricula of Hong Kong (HK), Mainland China and Taiwan have focused on Wester...
An important aim of this article is to show that, although Hong Kong’s overall education system has ...
As China has become an economic power in the past three decades, it has discovered that Western musi...