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A Comparative Study of the Content Structure of Middle School Music Curricula Guided by China’s Core Literacy and Korea’s Core Competencies

  • The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China
  • Abbr : JSLCKC
  • 2026, (80), pp.505~529
  • DOI : 10.16874/jslckc.2026..80.018
  • Publisher : Korean Society of Study on Chinese Languge and Culture
  • Research Area : Humanities > Chinese Language and Literature
  • Received : April 10, 2026
  • Accepted : May 20, 2026
  • Published : May 31, 2026

Guo Chao 1 KIM JUNG EUN 2

1강원대학교 글로벌융합학과
2한국외국어대학교 대만연구센터

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ABSTRACT

This study examines the content structure and competency orientation of middle school music curricula in China and Korea, drawing on the OECD framework of “key competencies.” Based on China’s Compulsory Education Arts Curriculum Standards 2022 and Korea’s 2022 Revised Music Curriculum, it uses documentary analysis and comparative research methods. The findings show that China organizes its curriculum around appreciation, expression, creation, and connection, emphasizing aesthetic perception, artistic expression, creative practice, and cultural understanding. Korea organizes its curriculum around appreciation, performance, and creation, supported by the dimensions of knowledge and understanding, process and skills, and value and attitude. While the two curricula correspond in appreciation, performance, and creation, their competency emphases differ. China stresses the progression from aesthetic experience to expression, creation, and cultural understanding, whereas Korea emphasizes self-management, communication, and participation in musical communities. The study argues that China’s “connection practice” forms an explicit and structured mechanism of integration, while Korea develops an embedded and integrative mechanism through content areas, content dimensions, and instructional principles.

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