自然観察の事前学習における楽曲の聴取と表現を通した聴覚的意識の向上

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  Although it is desired that environmental education is conducted as a cross-curricular program, its relationship to school music classes has not been fully discussed. Accordingly, as a case study in a junior high school, an environmental learning program associated with school music classes was conducted to study the pre-learning of nature observation. The objectives of this study are to examine whether or not the pre-learning program has the effect of improving the auditory senses of students who participated in nature observation, and to examine the possibility of the pre-learning program being conducted in the school music class. A mainstay of the program was a task where students freely express what they imagine listening to Ravel’s “Lever du jour,” a part of “Daphnis et chloé.” A morphological analysis and clustering of the students’program impression report generated three clusters. Cluster 1 contains students who seemed to focus only on expression of music. Cluster 2 contains students who did not refer to either listening or expression of music. Cluster 3 contains students who seemed to understand listening and expression of music as a set of processes. In nature observation, which was conducted after about two months of the pre-learning program, the students freely expressed their discovery. The contents of their discovery was compared to that of the previous year’s students, who did not take the pre-learning program. As a result, there was significantly more auditory description only in the students of cluster 3. This study, while being based on appreciation learning in a traditional school music class, could present a case program with the potential of improveing students’auditory senses throug the nature observation.