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<article xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://jats.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/1.1/xsd/JATS-journalpublishing1-mathml3.xsd" dtd-version="1.1" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">erd</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Education Reform and Development</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn>2652-5364</issn><eissn>2652-5372</eissn><publisher><publisher-name>Bio-Byword Scientific Publishing Pty. Ltd.</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.26689/erd.v8i3.14597</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title>Three Explorations of Beauty and Education: A Review of Why Aesthetic Education? — Three Turns of Contemporary Music Education in China from a Sociological Perspective</title><url>https://artdesignp.com/journal/erd/8/3/10.26689/erd.v8i3.14597</url><author>LiuNianci</author><pub-date pub-type="publication-year"><year>2026</year></pub-date><volume>8</volume><issue>3</issue><history><date date-type="pub"><published-time>2026-04-21</published-time></date></history><abstract>The article Why Aesthetic Education? — Three Turns of Contemporary Music Education in China from a Sociological Perspective was completed by Professor Xie Jiaxing from the China Conservatory of Music in September 2024 and published in the 4th issue of the Journal of the Central Conservatory of Music in 2024. 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