SUMMARY －105－

Qualitative Research of The Activity in a Music Care

ISHIGAMI Hiromi

In this research, in the framework of a school, the incumbent teacher who works in many

special education schools tried to observe and analyze the musical therapy practice to which is

performing that it cannot do in the form of extracurricular activities from the position of educa-

tional psychology.

The purpose of this research is to create the index for observing, recording and analyzing

action, speech and conduct, etc. of the child who becomes a candidate for important observation

out of the group musical therapy “music care” practice participant who made Kagaya style musi-

cal therapy basic theory, and to clarify about three points below.

1) Clarify the effect of the place of group musical therapy called a music care (effect of a place).

2) Show clearly how group musical therapy acted on development of a child with a handicap, and

has affected it (effect to development of a piece).

3) Adopt how for a child with a handicap, a guardian, a leader (named therapist), and a vice-

leader (named assistant therapist) to be concerned clear from participant observation (effect

of relation nature).