APSMER 创办于1997年，这一组织在近十年来致力于音乐教育领域的研究. APSMER组织的一项中心任务就是使亚太地区间各个国家以及全球其他国家之间在这一领域的沟通更为快捷顺畅。
　　Since 1997, the Asia Pacific Symposium on Music Education Research has been a forum for the dissemination of new scholarship relating to music teaching and learning. One of the central missions of APSMER is to facilitate exchange among researchers from the Asia Pacific region as well as between the Asia Pacific and global research communities.
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