2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Changing attitudes toward "teaching" and "learning": The Influence of the Modern Education on Iranian Music

Research Project

Project/Area Number	21720061
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Study of the arts/History of the arts/Arts in general
Research Institution	Kobe Gakuin University
Principal Investigator	TANI Masato 神戸学院大学, 人文学部, 講師 (20449622)
Project Period (FY)	2009 – 2011
Keywords	民族音楽学 / イラン音楽 / 学習理論
Research Abstract	This study discussed how attitudes toward "teaching" and "learning" in the practice of apprenticeship have been changed by the rise of a methodology using staff notation and etudes, together with the modern educational perspective inherent in it. In Iran, music was traditionally passed on orally. With the introduction of western music, however, textbooks such as Dastur-e Tar(1921), which appeared with the visualization of music, significantly changed traditional music pedagogy. This type of textbook initiated a new stage of knowledge transmission in modern educational sense which provided more specific, direct, and systematic instruction, within the traditional apprentice system in which each student raised questions and sought answers for himself.