Although eleven South African universities offer music as a specialised degree option, the music departments predominantly focus on classical music and to a lesser degree, jazz, both music styles offering limited career opportunities. South African universities are based on a western model of organisation and remain largely Eurocentric. Designing educative curriculum materials and developing teacher training activities in terms of curriculum use are recommended to further improve teachers' ability to use curriculum materials.Internationally, popular music is developing at an ever-increasing pace and, even though there have been some advances regarding education in popular music in South Africa, these programmes remain the exception at primary, secondary, and tertiary levels of institutionalised music education. There was no interaction effect between the two variables of the areas and years of teaching. Teachers from different administrative areas were significantly different in the dimensions of 'STSE' and 'teacher learning' teachers with different years of teaching experience showed significant differences in the dimensions of 'routine use', 'scientific inquiry' and 'STSE'.
Through a questionnaire survey of 208 junior high school chemistry teachers in three areas in Guangzhou, China, it was found that teachers thought they had a good interaction with curriculum materials, but the level of interaction is not very high.
An instrument with good validity and reliability was developed. On the basis of the model of the interactive relationship between teachers and curriculum materials, this research proposed the four dimensions of the interaction of chemistry teachers with curriculum materials: 'routine use', 'scientific inquiry', 'STSE' and 'teacher learning'.
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