A Study of Concepts on the "Subject Matter" as Unit of Curriculum Organization in Music Education

Abstract

Two purposes of this study are the reason why we started to use the word "subject matter" as unit of curriculum organization in music study and the study of either the word "subject matter" is suit to unit of curriculum organization. And the result will be summarized as follows. (1) In music study, the reason why we started to use the word "subject matter" as unit of curriculum organization is reconsideration of criticism to education of experimentalism after the World War E. (2) Conditions such as purpose, content, method of teaching purpose, expectation of result are need to be added at unit of curriculum organization. But the word "subject" is used for the level of teaching material and content of teaching, so it is difficult to use the word "subject matter" as unit of organization.