what i did and felt in spain, canada and japan...spanish familiar with offbeat japanese unfamiliar...
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What I did and felt in
Spain, Canada and Japan
Spain • Population: 46570000 (2017)
• Language: Spanish
• Land area: 506,000km2
• Race: Latin peoples
The reason why I went to Spain
• Participate in the international volunteer
• Brush up my English skills
• Make some friends allover the world
• International exchange
Volunteer
• The volunteer was only in the summer vacation.
• Children had some problems in their family.
• The volunteers gathered from all over the
world.
• Basic contents of volunteer were childcare.
What I did? Child care
English activities (history, chain tag, etc.)
Music activities
Time schedule of 1 day
Wake up
6:50
Breakfast
7:00
Play with children
(English activities)
8:00
Lunch time
12:00
Play with youth
(Activities or day trip)
13:00
Free time
16:00
Meeting
20:00
Go to
bed
23:00
Especially … I did music activities!!
Because/ My hobby is playing the guitar.
I taught how to play the guitar for children.
However, it was difficult to talk with
children. They have various problems in their
family, so they were not open up to me.
Spanish music education
Most activities were group work.
There was no age restriction in the activities.
Children could choose activities themselves.
Leaders don’t instruct the children anything.
difference of habits about music between Japan and Spain
sense of rhythm… When we did music activity,
all Spanish kids used offbeat
to clap their hands.
It is different from Japan… Japanese use off
beat to clap their
hands…
Why…?
It is due to roots of music and language.
Most Spanish music use offbeat so, they use offbeat.
Japanese traditional music consists of repetition of
offbeat and upbeat.
Spanish familiar with offbeat
Japanese unfamiliar with offbeat
Latin music • Latin music is popular in Latin America and Caribbean.
• Latin music composed of various music.
• Especially, rhythm of Latin music is influenced by black
music. (ex: reggae, ska)
Indian music
Black music
Western music
Latin music
Ex1) Ambulance
Japanese
westerner
po pi pi po
pi pi po po
Japanese emphasize the first beat.
Westerner emphasize the second beat.
Environments
Language
Background of music
Region, Country, Family
Japanese English
Enka, Latin music, Western music, Black music
Sense
of
rhythm
Conclusion
Sense of rhythm is related to
language , environments in which
a person has grown up and
background of music.
*case of Japan and Spain
Canada • Population: 36710000 (2017)
• Language: English/French
• Land area: 9.984,670km2
• Race: Multiethnic country
• Research method
Asked 30 children “What do you do in music class?.” “Do you have music lessons apart from those at school?.”
Visited 2 elementary schools. Asked 2 elementary school teachers and 1 University professor about “music class & National character”
•Result
Q1: What do you do in your music class?
Singing
Performing instrument
Making instrument
•Answer
Do you have music lesson except for school?
Yes
No
2/30→ Yes
28/30→ No
Most children…
Soccer, Baseball, Swimming, etc.…
Q2: Do you have music lesson except for school?
Canadian National character
• Canadians are tolerant of different
cultures and values.
• Canadians respect diversity.
• Canadians have placid personality.
• Gender equality.
Canada Japan Music class textbook
Generally, Japanese music text books have few illustrations.
On the other hand, Canadian music text books have a lot of
illustrations.
Japanese: Focus on strict education
Canadian: Focus on enjoying the music
When you started to attend music lesson? (Japan)
Most Japanese children attend
music lesson from 3-6 years old
Why? There are some benefits for children
if they attend music class early
Perfect pitch, cooperativeness, music skills,
Become clever
Chart of “When did children start
learning the piano?” in Japan.
Canadian ‘s policy
• Canadians don’t force children to something.
• Canadians respect children's will.
Children can choose what they want to do.
Children are motivated.
They can make it on their own.
They can learn something smoothly.
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70
2017
2007
1998
Percentage of elementary school with music teacher
(from TORONTO STAR)
Percentage of elementary schools with music teachers
Music teachers are decreasing year by year In Canada
The result indicate difficulty
of taking music classes for
Canadian children.
In addition, Canadians can make
school schedule themselves. So, it is
possible to don’t take music class.
Canadian focus on children’s will.
It is one of the reason why music
teachers are decreasing.
Canada Japan
Music class Evenly Focus on singing, musical instrument
The age of attend music lesson
7-12 years old 3-6 years old
Compulsory education? × ○ Music text A lot of
illustrations Few illustrations
• Summary
Japan
• Population: 126,800,000
(2017)
• Language: Japanese
• Land area: 377,973,89km2
• Race: Japanese
Kosodate Salon
• It is gathering of parenting share.
• It is held Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.
• Participants are babies.(parent & child)
Why I joined this program?
I went to Spain and Canada.
I know both music education.
However…
I don’t know Japanese
music education
I should know Japanese
music education
Joined the Kosodate salon.
Did music activities with
university staff and professor.
What I did?
• I prepared three music activities.
• Contents was played the guitar and
sang about nursery rhyme.
• I did these activities in collaboration
with university staff.
I felt…
• Infants can’t understand the instructions.
• Show music activities is better than teach
how to do music activities for Infants.
• Infants prefer exercise to mentally
challenge game .
• Infant’s interests are distracted.
• Infants can’t keep concentration more than
10 minutes.
• Music activities facilitate the
communication between parent and child
Reflection point
Too much explanation
Children’s interests are
distracted
Children can’t understand
what to do
Show something
to do
Too much explanation
Their attention is caught by others
There was no intonation
in my speaking
Children were scared and
bored
They were not
interested in activities
Important
Facial
expression
Intonation
Gesture
Order of activities
We should chose exercise for the
first activity
Because…
Exercise is the activity that children are
most concentrated
Acknowledgement
Spain/ volunteer members and leader
Canada/ host family and professors
Japan/ professor Murayama and staff of
Kosodate salon
“I really appreciate your help”