環境構成の工夫にみる音楽的表現活動の展開過程 : 4歳児におけるシャボン玉の実践を通して

抄録

This study aims to reveal the development process of children's musical expression generated from where systematic environmental configurations are made based on simple musical expression observed in children's play. Three stages of children's expression process have been derived by investigating "fertility of expression": 1) expression being generated from inspiring experiences, 2) the empathy of the inspiring experiences developing into activities of musical expression, and 3) the expression being devised by the enriched inner world. Instruction plan for four-year-old class in a public kindergarten has been made in order for children to develop activities by relating seasonal play, musical expression and creative expression. Environmental configurations from children's play have been observed, and the development of expression activities has been analyzed from the viewpoint of the relationship between inner and outer worlds. The following conclusions are derived: 1) In the first stage, by the teacher conveying a musical appearance generated from inspiring experience to other children, the appearance develops to be a musical expression. 2) In the second stage, setting a situation by the teacher for children to look back on their play produces positive communication between children, which becomes the basis of responsible musical expression. 3) In the third stage, when the teacher picks up and introduces utterances about ingenious expression, children develop their own musical expression. As these three stages are in order, fertile musical expression activity can be developed by giving systematic environmental configurations based on children's situation during their play.