Teaching Music History at Hong Kong Baptist University: Problem-Based Learning and Outcome-Based Teaching and Learning

  • Hon-Lun Yang Hong Kong Baptist University
Keywords: Music History, East Asia

Abstract

This presentation, while identifying problems in teaching Western music history in Asia, focuses on the instructor’s experience of adopting problem-based learning (PBL), through which to reflect on curriculum and teaching approach issues.     

Author Biography

Hon-Lun Yang, Hong Kong Baptist University
Hon-Lun Yang is professor of music at Hong Kong Baptist University’s Department of Music. Yang’s research is cross-cultural and interdisciplinary, ranging from nineteenth-century American symphonic music to contemporary Chinese music both “serious†“popular†in style and appeal. She is the author of over thirty articles in such journals as Asian Music (2010), International Review of Aesthetics and Sociology of Music (2011), Music and Politics (2007), CHIME (2005), American Music (2003), and BLOK (2003) and book chapters in Music and Protest in 1968 (Cambridge University Press, 2013), Music and Politics (Ashgate, 2013), Music, Power, and Politics (Routledge, 2005), etc. She is currently working on a number of projects including: co-editing a volume with Michael Saffle on entitled East-West Music Encounters (University of Michigan Press), a tri-author book with Simo Mikkonen and John Winzenburg on Russian musicians in Shanghai, her own projects on Cantopop cover songs in Hong Kong, and three Chinese composers, Wang Xilin, Zhu Jian’er and Luo Zhongrong’s symphonic journey.    
Published
2014-01-05
Issue
Vol 4 No 2 (2014): Spring 2014: Essays in Honor of Douglass Seaton
Section
Roundtable

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