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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Educ.
Sec. Teacher Education
Volume 9 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/feduc.2024.1480946

SITUATION OF MUSIC EDUCATION IN PRIMARY SCHOOL IN WUHAN (CHINA). ANALYSIS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF MUSIC TEACHERS

Provisionally accepted
  • 1 University of Granada, Granada, Spain
  • 2 University of Cordoba, Córdoba, Spain

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    This article makes an exploratory and diagnostic analysis, of empirical type, of the current situation of music education in primary schools in the city of Wuhan (China), from the perspective and opinion of the music teachers of these schools. The research approach is quantitative and a crosssectional descriptive empirical-analytical research method was used. A total of 423 primary school music teachers from Wuhan participated in the research. An existing questionnaire on the situation of music education in primary schools in Beijing and Shanghai (China) is used in this research. This instrument has psychometric properties calculated by validity and reliability. As for the results of the questionnaire, the Mann-Whitney U-test was used to determine in which questions about the performance of music teachers in primary schools there are significant differences between different variables that make up the socio-demographic profile of the teacher, habits and resources available in the classroom. It is hoped that this study can contribute to the development of music education in Wuhan primary schools.

    Keywords: music education, Primary education, music teachers, People's republic of China, Wuhan

    Received: 14 Aug 2024; Accepted: 13 Nov 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Zhu, Solano Sánchez and Lorenzo Quiles. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Oswaldo Lorenzo Quiles, University of Granada, Granada, Spain

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