2006 Volume 44 Issue 2 Pages 156-166
This research analyzes individual cases to reveal how children form the basis of expression through sounds by interacting with the environment in their daily preschool life. Children have many experiences relating to sounds in their lives and these experiences basically involve various factors in their development. Many cases incorporate important factors to promote "development of expression through sounds." In this paper, based on the fieldwork records, children's experiences relating to sounds are displayed in a sketch of the preschool. Subsequently, similar experiences observed in a bamboo forest are analyzed to examine the meaning of children's experiences from a viewpoint of fostering expression through sounds. These observations provide an important viewpoint to think about children's development of expression in relation to environment.
