| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
Fiscal Year 2007: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
Fiscal Year 2006: ¥2,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000)
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| Research Abstract |
Since the latter half of the 1990s, various attempts have been made in Japan to grasp sensitivity as a science. This research focused on "musical conversation" and developed a method for analyzing that structure, based on the definition that."sensitivity is the ability to perceive the correlations between one's environment and one's physical self (Kuwako, 2002)".
To begin with, a framework was considered with an axis of "tacitly = explicitly" added to an intellectual system(Shiizuka, 2004) consisting of 4 quadrants formed by a vertical axis of "artificial sensitivity and natural intellect" and a horizontal axis of "expression and learning". Then, whether subjects converted tacit knowledge into explicit knowledge via some sort of process was indicated by the quadrants and the "sensitivity" and "clinical wisdom" were visualized in each of the development stages.
The research process in relation to this framework has been reported in the Japan Society of Kansei Engineering and academic feedback is being received.
This framework has been used in various musical environments to identify what sort of "wisdom" practitioners employ.
Moreover, the superficial and underlying structures of art programs for Williams Syndrome, which continues to be researched, were compared between the USA and Ireland and reported over a 6-year period. In March 2008, Terry Monkaba, Executive Director of the Williams Syndrome Association (USA), and her son Ben were invited to Japan for a symposium of affected children and families, researchers and concerned persons. A workshop was staged simultaneously to examine sensitivity to music.
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