2015 Volume 45 Issue 1 Pages 1-12
The present study clarified that childcare workers' narratives of music outreach had never been properly examined in previous studies and carried out interviews and analyses using the Modified Grounded Theory Approach to investigate how childcare workers who experience music outreach explain their practices. The results showed that the central topic of their narratives was not what skills or knowledge children is acquiring, what children can do in practice. This shows that kindergarten and nursery school are the places for workers to focus on children's abilities. The results of this study also showed that setting up interviews or meetings causes one to pay attention to the actions of children that one would typically ignore and to view these actions from a new viewpoint. From these results, it can be concluded that interviews or meetings can be opportunities to promote horizontal learning or to verbalize and visualize horizontal learning.
