INVESTIGATION AND COMPARATIVE STUDY ON THE PRESENT SITUATION OF MUSIC TEACHERS IN URBAN-RURAL PRIMARY SCHOOL

Abstract

Education is the key to the sustainable development of the country. In China, the gap between urban and rural education is a long-standing problem. Primary school education is the first important learning stage of life, and it is one of the key educations in cultivating a child's comprehensive quality education. Primary school music teachers, as the main body of teaching and education, play an important role in cultivating and shaping students. This is quantitative and qualitative research. This paper adopts the method of questionnaire survey combined with field research and individual interview. 

Major Findings:(1) On the first objective it was found that there are significant differences between urban and rural primary school music teachers in Shaoguan city in terms of teaching work, age and teaching age, teaching research and training, teaching satisfaction, and career development expectation, etc. In the data, it is shown that much rural music teachers are lower than urban primary school music teachers;(2) On the second objective it was found that:1) brain drain, shortage of music teachers in rural areas;2) Music teachers have heavy work tasks and great pressure;3) Lack of training of music teachers and improvement of scientific research ability;4) Music teachers in rural primary schools have a low degree of satisfaction with their work;(3) On the third objective it was found that: four reasons for the differences between urban and rural primary school music teachers are studied, and four corresponding suggestions and countermeasures are given, hoping that relevant government departments will vigorously promote reform and implementation.