Subjectivity and Multiculturalism in Music Education:A Case Study of the Contents of Music Textbooks in High Schools in Taiwan(China)and Java(Indonesia)
Subjectivity and multiculturalism have been the main focuses of music education in various countries in recent years.However,in the process of development,the subjectivity and diversity of music education are often caused by differences in policies of music education,allocation of educational resources,or educational methods,and thus multiculturalism cannot achieve a bal-anced state.Many scholars engaged in educating ethnomusicology have therefore begun to reflect on and criticize the current direc-tion of music education.This article mainly takes the music education in high schools in Taiwan(China)and Java(Indonesia)as examples to explore the problems that arise in the development process of music education today by focusing on four aspects:subjec-tivity and multiculturalism in music education,the contents and characteristics of music textbooks in high schools in Taiwan(Chi-na),the connotations and practices of music textbooks in high schools in Java(Indonesia)and core values of subjectivity and mul-ticulturalism in music education of high schools in these two regions.
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