Enhancement of Listening Behaviors by Young Children - Cooperative Expression of Creative Music Making by ICT-

2021 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 20K13944
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: Basic Section 09030:Childhood and nursery/pre-school education-related
• Research Institution: Tsukuba International Junior College
• Principal Investigator: Koichi Nakajo つくば国際短期大学, 保育科, 講師(移行) (80838201)
• Project Period (FY): 2020-04-01 – 2022-03-31
• Keywords: 音楽教育 / ICT / 保育 / サウンド・エデュケーション / 音楽づくり

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study examines the listening and music making activities of young children using information and communication technologies (ICT). We observed the children’s listening behaviors through a series of activities. The participants were 34 five-years-old children form a kindergarten in Japan. The children’s sampled sounds were automatically looped as sound materials. The way the children recorded and listened to their own sounds enabled them to relate to the environment from a different perspective, thus highlighting the educational significance of using ICT in music making in early childhood. Moreover, the study stresses the significance of increasing the participation of young children in sound play activities. Furthermore, it can be used as a hint to understand what children, who are still immature in verbal expression, understand about and how they devise their musical expression, which they cannot explain by themselves.

Free Research Field

音楽教育

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

幼児期の子どもを対象とした音楽づくりは現時点で多くの研究が為されているとは言い難い中、本研究では、ICTのもつ多様な機能を活用した幼児の音楽表現を模索することに着目し、幼児の音を聴く姿や音楽をつくる姿を表出し、音・音楽に向かう新しい姿を師が発見することにつながるという仮説を実践的に検証した。今後、GIGAスクール構想やSociety5.0、COVID-19の対策と学びのイノベーションといった社会的状況の中で、家庭内での電子機器の配備やIoT化が進み、必然的にICTが環境の一部となって幼児が触れる機会は増えていくと考えられる。本研究はこの社会的状況に対して示唆を与える研究である。