| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,160,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥960,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study aims to characterize the Suzuki method -“Talent Education”- from the viewpoint of “ethos in the Suzuki teachers’ community”. For this purpose, I chose specific summer schools both in Japan and in the United States, which embrace the original Suzuki method. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with individual teachers and groups of teachers at both sites to extract common topics representing the teachers’ values and beliefs. It became clear that the Suzuki method is oriented toward “music education as human education”. The significance of playing in unison was demonstrated through teachers’ narratives to embody the ethos of collaboration, co-learning, and co-development - openly rejecting the competitiveness so common in traditional music education. The potentiality of music for human society and education was corroborated by reciprocal teaching and learning in the Suzuki teachers’ community.
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