2024 Volume 53 Issue 2 Pages 1-12
The purpose of this paper is to clarify the mechanism of the formation and transformation of the instructor-learner relationship in private vocal lessons. For this purpose, we used a case study of private vocal lessons in out-of-school music education and conducted an analysis based on G. Bateson’s communication theory. The conclusions are the following four points. First, the instructor-learner relationship begins in an unstable form, lacking a foundation of “prestige. Second, the relationship survives by borrowing existing” teaching-learning “contexts through” abduction. Third, “redundancy” is increased by “double description,” which combines information from different sources to create new information, and an integrated system is formed that subsystems the instructor and the learner to each other. Fourth, because body techniques are deeply involved in the human unconscious, “camouflage” by “shame” occurs, but it also provides an opportunity to transform the relationship in a significant way.
