Training music teachers for multicultural education in South Africa

The acknowledgment and appreciation of diversity in South Africa can only come about if all racial and ethnic groups of the nation are able to understand the similarities that bind them and the differences that distinguish them as entities of one (rainbow) nation. In this regard, the role of education is primo facto. Thus, the need for a paradigm shift to multi cultural education cannot be overemphasized. Music education, which still relies to a large extent, on Euro-centric attitudes and principles, has to redefine its purposes and principles to reflect multicultural dynamics of world musics. Couple with the multicultural demand in education in this country are the demands of OBE and curriculum 20005. With regard to these demands and the phenomenon of globalisation, a curriculum framework for training music teachers for Multicultural-outcome-based education in South Africa has been proposed.