A Study of Suzuki's Original Educational Philosophy :

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  • スズキメソード音楽教育論の原点を探る
  • ―日米の教師の語りから見るスズキコミュニティのエートス―
  • The Ethos of the Suzuki Method Teachers' Community Based on Narrative Inquiry in Japan and the United States

Abstract

<p>  This study aims to characterize the Suzuki method from an insider viewpoint of Suzuki teachers, by focusing on the teachers' narratives. By studying teachers who have worked close to the founder and his philosophy, both in Japan and the United States, I focused on “ethos in the Suzuki teachers' community,” drawing on narrative inquiry, showing the ways Suzuki teachers embrace Suzuki Shinich's philosophy in a living form. For this purpose, I chose specific summer schools whose teachers aspire to remain faithful to 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, in particular, 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 confirmed by reciprocal teaching and learning in the Suzuki teachers' community, and by the growth of parents and teachers as well as that of children.</p>

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  • CRID
    1390282680795505280
  • NII Article ID
    130005529248
  • DOI
    10.20614/jjomer.45.1_13
  • ISSN
    24241644
    02896907
  • Text Lang
    ja
  • Data Source
    • JaLC
    • CiNii Articles
  • Abstract License Flag
    Disallowed

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