The Enlightenment Of United States "Housewright Declaration" On The Professional Music Education Of Chinese Comprehensive University

Students in music education from comprehensive universities are an important component of music teachers in our country. Professionalization of music teachers is the current mainstream thinking of education. The quality certification for teachers guarantees the system of teacher professionalization. And its improvement can promote the development of teacher professionalization. Recently, though the current certification system has just started, it has played a positive role in development and quality of music teachers. However, the quality certification for music teachers doesn't play its due role since the insufficient of this firstborn system.In the end of the 20th century, the United States demonstrated a "Housewright Declaration"."Housewright Declaration" raises the major issues and plans the music education prospects for the new century in the next 20 years based on the fierce competition of international education at the turn of this century. It is a forward-looking strategy declaration which will have a profound impact on the American music education in the next 20 years. "Housewright Declaration" claims that the teacher system should be updated in order to seek certain channel to broaden the teaching way. In the view of the main problem of the music teacher qualification system, we should learn the spirit from "Housewright Declaration" to improve the system and the professional level of the music teachers.This paper is organized as follows: the first section introduces the background, content, new concepts of "Housewright Declaration"; section 2 presents the current development and main issues of the music student education in our comprehensive universities ; inspiration which music education students gain from the "Housewright Declaration" in our comprehensive universities is analyzed in section 3.