Huilin Qi

Thesis

Thesis Title & Description

Under different education systems, the comparative study of music teacher preparation in China and the UK since the 21st century

• Supervisor: Peter Dale

In the 21st century, trends toward global integration, cultural diversification, and multicultural education have brought new requirements for primary and secondary school music education in China (Ministry of Education of the PRC, 2001). Accordingly, further requirements are placed on music teachers. However, it seems that the current music teacher preparation in China cannot meet those requirements for music teachers so far (Wu & Jin, 2002). At the same time, music teacher preparation in the UK seems suitable to meet some of the new requirements to some extent, although the UK system also has its own problems (Devaney & Nenadic, 2019). Thus, with the intent of investigating how music teacher preparation systems in these two countries can learn from each other in the future, my research project makes a series of comparative studies based on the preparation of music teachers in China and the UK.

Biography

Biography

Huilin Qi is a PhD student in department of music in the University of York, supervised by Dr Pete Dale. After finished her bachelor’s degree in musicology in 2018, she became a school music teacher for one year, teaching grade one pupils in a Chinses public primary school. After that, she completed her master's degree in music performance (vocal) in China in 2019-2022. Since Huilin started her PhD study in October 2022, she is now a secondary year PhD student in the University of York. She also just started her GTA and PGR rep work this semester. Her research project is a comparative study of music teacher preparation in China and the UK, supervised by Dr Pete Dale.

Research

Research Interests

Music education;
Music teacher education;
PGCE courses;
and other music degree courses.

Publications

Publications

May 2023: Joined the 2nd ChiNESS conference