With the advancement of the digital transformation of education and the implementation of educational goals oriented to core competencies, cultural understanding, as one of the four core competencies of the music discipline in compulsory education, has become a focus of music education reform. As a cultural carrier, music undertakes the mission of cultural inheritance and aesthetic cultivation, and cultural understanding serves as the core link connecting music skills and cultural inheritance. At present, primary and secondary school music teaching still faces bottlenecks such as the overemphasis on skills over culture and the insufficient integration of technology and literacy. Artificial intelligence provides a new path to break through these bottlenecks and promote the cultivation of cultural understanding literacy. Based on the requirements for cultivating the core competencies of the music discipline, this study clarifies the connotation and value of cultural understanding literacy, analyzes its correlation with other music core competencies and artificial intelligence technology. It explores practical cultivation strategies from four dimensions in combination with the current situation and predicaments of the integration of technology and cultural understanding literacy in teaching, thereby constructing a systematic integration system and realizing the transformation of music education from skill teaching to literacy cultivation.
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Chen, J. (2025) Research on the Cultivation of Cultural Understanding Literacy in Primary and Secondary Schools Music Disciplines Empowered by Technology. Global Education Bulletin, 2(1), 40-48.
https://doi.org/10.71052/grb2025/YEWA8150