Volume 29, Issue 1
DOI: 10.24205/03276716.2020.48
APPLICATION OF POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY IN CLASSROOM TEACHING OF VOCAL MUSIC
Abstract
Vocal music is a compulsory course for many music and art students. In addition to vocal skills, the students of vocal music should learn how to express their emotional experience actively in the form of music. This paper aims to improve the classroom teaching of vocal music based on the theory of positive psychology. Firstly, a questionnaire survey was conducted to analyse the status quo of classroom teaching of vocal music in Chinese colleges, and reveal the problems with the teaching process. Then, several application strategies of positive psychology were compared in terms of their impacts on vocal music teaching. The results show that the classroom teaching of vocal music has many problems, such as the lack of demonstration, insufficient evaluation and poor enthusiasm for learning; the positive psychology should be introduced to the classroom teaching of vocal music, using the hint function, infection function and strengthening function of positive emotions; the proposed application strategy of positive psychology can greatly improve the students’ interest in learning and their learning results. The research provides empirical evidences for promoting the effect of classroom teaching of vocal music.
Keywords
Mental Health Education, Vocal Music Teaching, Teaching Strategy, Teaching Effect.