Suzuki Method as a original method for the education for infants, which was conceived by Shinichi Suzuki in 1945 and afterware developed and generalized, is presently applied to the advanced musical education in countries of the world. In Korea, it ha...
Suzuki Method as a original method for the education for infants, which was conceived by Shinichi Suzuki in 1945 and afterware developed and generalized, is presently applied to the advanced musical education in countries of the world. In Korea, it has been spreaded since it was introduced by the late Dr, Kim Hee-Mo in 1968 and applied to the music education in Kindergartens and private music Institutes.
Suzuki Method which is based an principles 'The Education for improving Human Beings through Music' has the following features : (1) Emphasis of Early Education (2) Emphasis of learning method of Hearing-Imitation-Repetition-Memorizing (3) Positive participation of Parents and (4) Class type of individual lessons. And it is an another feature to go side by side with the program for inproving talents of infants for them to receive more plentifully and smoothly Suzuki Method.
As a result of my study, Suzuki Method has the possible factors of the below mentioned effective application to kindergarten education.
(1) The basic philosophy of Suzuki Method corresponds with that of infant education.
(2) lt can be coincided with all day-system operation of kindergartens.
(3) lt is helpful to the connection with the educational process of elementary schools
(4) lt can inspire parents with trust in kindergartens.
Additionally, the following is syggested for the purpose of application of Suzuki Method for the better :
(1) It should be studied and developed to applied properly to educational environments of our country.
(2) lt should be studied to be applied Suzuki Method to performance class of traditional Korean instruments.
(3) Program development is required so that positive participation of parents could be realized.
(4) Various teaching materials and tools must be developed by giving impetus to the study of program for developing talents.
(5) It has to be spreaded actively by repeating and deepening regularly intervals re-ducation for teachers of Suzuki Method and re-ducation programs for them should be studied and developed.