Research On Dance Education At Primary And Secondary School And Inheritance Of National Folk Dance

A great country of 56 nationalities, China boasts rich and various ethnic cultures with a distant and profound history.Each national group developed its own unique culture during their long process of labor work in their unique natural environment.Characterized as diligent and simple,they created exquisite and profound national culture and injected new vigor to the great Chinese nationality.With time passing,each national group made more and more material and spiritual achievements to enrich their culture,and formed many traditional virtues.To foster a sense of national honor among students can help them form their valuable pursuits and the sense of safeguarding national interest and dignity. Especially in current economic times,cultural communications between all countries have kept students in contact with different culture and sensory stimulation while in less understanding in their own national culture and weakened their sense of national identity.This research is focused on how national cultures can be inherited. Currently,primary and secondary education is developing towards a comprehensive direction with an emphasis on all-round development of students. The stage of primary and secondary education is the time of fostering philosophy on life and values for students and also the best time to foster their sense of national honor.As an unavoidable stage, primary and secondary education is also the golden opportunity for popularizing universal education,which makes us believe it is the best place for inheritance of national culture.Confucius holds music and dance is the best way for people to express their feelings.As dance can affect people's mood and morals, Confucius regards music and dance as self-education for perfecting personality.In current environment,students understand less and less about national folk dance and even about their own national dance culture. Compared with folk dance,they favor more pop dance,which is true among most of them. Research on dance education at primary and secondary school and inheritance of national folk dance is a new subject on how we can penetrate national folk dance education into universal education:firstly,what is faced by dance education in elementary education at home and abroad is described;secondly,the relation between inheritance of national folk dance,national folk dance and primary and secondary education is expounded;lastly,views and visions on localized school-based curriculum development are provided. It is worth of good research on how we can develop primary and secondary schools into a place for inheritance of national culture and national fold dance from generation to generation.