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Education is one of the key factors of social development, which influences the progress of social, cultural, economic and political developments. The significance of teachers’ role has lately been related to the new requirements for teacher competencies. The competencies of a music teacher are a part of European Qualifications Framework (EQF) (Common European Principles for Teacher Competences and Qualifications, 2005). The article presents the "Descriptor of Music Teacher Competencies", which describes the Bachelor's of Music qualification degree in the field of art pedagogy, i.e. it outlines the competencies, which should be developed to become successfully employed in the selected area of music pedagogy within formal and informal education. The paper highlights, on the basis of longitudinal inquiry, the tendencies among students as future music educators towards the formation of professional identity during teaching practices.

This study calls the new type of ethnography as ethnotelling. Ethnotelling is a mixed research method of ethnology and storytelling. As a condition of ethnotelling, it is essential for ethnotelling to have research local area within a regional boundary. The process of ethnotelling contains fieldwork, building materials as the ethnography step, and determining typology of the storytelling step, and as well as, investigating and building regional cultural resources to create cultural values. By giving the example of using this new method, this study highlights three points of the ethnography tool. First, ethnotelling must lively describe the spot. Second, ethnotelling should contain diversities. Third, ethnotelling should have narratives. Especially, this study describe Hwanggol village located in Gumdan of Incheon, Korea.

In this paper, the study of the past 30 years(1978〜2008) in China’s education course to be a sort of anthropological research, focusing on the education and anthropology disciplines interdisciplinary, and cross-study experiences in China. This article has been concerned about the development of the education in the academic disciplines of anthropology sources and the development history of the anthropology of education in China, combined with our local practices in the course of the problems that exist in the future, as well as the development of the topics to be explored deeper.

As Asian countries, Vietnam and Korea have many similarities in history and culture. For many years, those two countries has had a cooperative relations. Especially, the interests in Korean culture of Vietnamese people were huge. Overall, Hallyu, the Korean cultural wave has been received by the Vietnamese people through various pathways including education and training. Regarding pathway of scientific researches, many international scientific conferences related to Korean and Korean studies was held in Vietnam such as Film and TV, music, tourism, oversea study, Vietnamese workers working in Korean companies, and Korea–Vietnam multicultural family. In the past two decades, with many different communication channels, Hanllyu played an important role in promoting Korean effects in Vietnam. This study analysis both positive and negative effects. Therefore, besides the acquisitions of external cultural essence, we always respect, preserve and promote traditional cultural identity of our peoples that has been crystallized through thousands of years.

Nation is a large community of people, usually, sharing a common history, language, culture, etc, and living in a particular territory under one government. It is a historical technical term since the human came into being. China has 56 nations or ethnic groups. While, still 640 thousand more people remain unrecognized up to now, that is to say, they are out of those “official” groups though quite a few of them can still enjoy preferential treatment in accordance with the provisions of the State. With the acceleration of economic globalization, and the age of high-speed rail, they find themselves in a dilemma. On the one hand, they can not enjoy the preferential in a comprehensive way as a “special group” compared with the others; on the other, a few of elites have been struggling to be identified as a minority by the state for lack of definite status-equivalent ethnic code, as brings them a lot of troubles in, say, studying abroad, hunting jobs. The paper takes Guizhou unidentified ethnic groups as a case study, trying to discuss their home today and tomorrow.

Rapid ongoing globalization and internationalization have created multilinguacultural environments and societies at national, regional and global levels. This heterogeneous and dynamic phenomenon has raised linguistic ecology issues (e.g. Kramsch, 2002;Preece,2011). Consequently, it has brought attention to how interlocutors from multilingual and multicultural backgrounds successfully achieve mutual intelligibility by accommodating each other in intercultural communication. In consideration of this, my intention is to understand the essential relationship between language and culture, the inherent variety so as to identify intercultural communication including both verbal and nonverbal areas, and the needs in multilinguacultural communities. Ultimately, it would be useful to figure out the situation in Korea as it turns into a multicultural society.