This study is based upon the problematics that ‘humanity education’ implemented at
school is still symptomatic treatment, separate from ‘subject education’, and has difficulty in
being developed continuously as educational activities, which are integrated into school
curriculum and meaningful for students’ lives. In this vein, this study aims to understand
the practice, outcome, and contexts of ‘Musical’ education of K middle-school in a
low-income area. This school has conducted Musical education successfully as humanity
education by making efforts to make education educational, through integrating ‘creative
activity education’ and various subjects education into musical activity and festival. Only if
it could be understood how humanity education has been planned and implemented in the
concrete context of school, the research results might contribute to practising and expanding
this model to the other schools.
As results of research, it is revealed that adopting new perspective of music education
and autonomous form of festival has enabled various subjects and creative activity education
to be placed properly in the process of musical education, and consequently self-respect,
self-management, problem solving as well as collective experience of achievement have been
developed. Also it is identified that such a successful implementation and settlement of
musical in the curriculum and tradition of K-school can be possible due to the music
teacher’s reflection on the essence and object of music education, indomitable trials and
errors of the association for studying music subject, institutional and financial support to
such efforts of teachers and transforming their accumulated experiences into a manual, and
finally school principal’s trust and support.