Kodaly Music Education Professional Committee of Beijing Musicians Association

        The Kodaly Music Education Professional Committee of the Beijing Musicians Association, established on January 6, 2011, is a professional academic organization affiliated with the Beijing Musicians Association. There are currently 5409 formal members, with Professor Yang Limei serving as the chairman of the first council and Professor Qi Deyuan serving as the chairman of the second council. Members cover various fields such as higher education, basic education, vocational education, adult education, early childhood education, special education, extracurricular education, and professional organizations. In addition to 1995 members from Beijing, there are also 3414 members from other provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities, special zones, and Malaysia, including Anhui, Macau, Chongqing, Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hebei, Henan, Heilongjiang, Hubei, Hunan, Jilin, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Qinghai, Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Shanghai, Sichuan, Tianjin, Xinjiang, Zhejiang, Yunnan, etc. Members include music teachers in higher education, basic education, and early childhood education; College students, music teachers from external institutions (such as palace houses and private training institutions), special education music teachers, vocational and adult education music teachers, and performers from various fields. The professional committee has also established 68 base schools in provinces such as Beijing, Hebei, Gansu, Hunan, Fujian, Guangdong, and Shandong to promote the dissemination of Kodaly teaching method in Chinese school teaching practice.

      Professor Yang Limei, Chairman of the Professional Committee, was sent by the government to Hungary twice in the 1980s and 1990s, and studied at the Liszt Academy of Music and the Kodaly Institute of Liszt Academy of Music for nearly three years. After returning to China, he published the first monograph in Chinese Mainland that introduced Hungarian music education and Kodak teaching method in detail. Up to now, this monograph is also the core textbook for relevant music education experts and normal school students in Chinese Mainland to learn Kodak teaching method, as well as the basic and core Chinese materials cited most in relevant monographs and papers on Kodak teaching method in Chinese Mainland.

      Since its establishment, the Professional Committee has actively carried out various training activities, organizing 17 regular training activities during holidays in Beijing and Guangdong. More than 3771 students have participated in the Kodaly teaching method training. At the same time, at the invitation of local educational institutions, training sessions have been conducted multiple times in provinces such as Fujian, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Gansu, Shandong, Shanxi, Hunan, Hebei, and Henan, with a total of over 8500 trainees. The professional committee conducts an annual teacher video lesson selection activity to summarize teaching practice experience and promote effective experience, allowing more members to intuitively understand the teaching process and teaching effectiveness of Kodaly teaching method.

      The Professional Committee actively contacts the Kodaly Institute of the Liszt Academy of Music, establishes a long-term contact point at the location of the Kodaly Institute, and dispatches permanent personnel to strengthen ties with the International Kodaly Society and Kodaly Societies of various countries. At the same time, six batches of members (a total of 90 people) were sent to study at the Kodaly Institute located in Kecskemet, Hungary in 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2018, and 2019.

      Nowadays, the Beijing Kodaly Society invites outstanding experts from international Kodaly societies to come to China every year for teaching work, and conducts regular training and assessment for music teachers. At the same time, it also undertakes the teaching task of organizing groups of teachers from other provinces to study in Beijing.

      The Beijing Kodaly Society has established good relationships with the International Kodaly Society and the Kodaly Research Institute of the Liszt Academy of Music in Hungary. It is able to timely and accurately obtain the latest research results and academic activity information in the international Kodaly academic community, and promptly transmit them back to China to broaden the horizons of its members.