Music Education For Future Generations: Promoting Sustainable Musical Lifecourses within Super-Aged Societies

With the global rise of population aging, lifelong learning and music engagement are widely recognized strategies for promoting sustainable societal development, offering well-established benefits for the physical, psychological, and social well-being of older adults. However, current opportunities for music engagement and the pedagogical competencies of facilitators and teachers are insufficient to meet the expanding needs of aging populations. This project, grounded in sustainable development, aims to promote the sustainable musical lifecourse (SML) framework with a global vision, focusing on advancing professional music education for super-aged societies.

The expected contribution of this project is to expand professionalism in music education to ensure equitable access for older adults and future generations throughout their lives, fostering an inclusive, intergenerational, and culturally diverse environment by bringing together Western and Asian perspectives on aging and intergenerational solidarity.

Keywords: Aging, Lifelong Learning, Sustainable Development Goals, Later-life Music Education)

Rong Yang is a doctoral student in the Research Study Programme at the MuTri Doctoral School.