The meaning of art education is being enlarged as art is cultural education that does not possess particularity but have universality, as a result of which educational change is necessary. As modern social education puts emphasis on sensitivity and c...
The meaning of art education is being enlarged as art is cultural education that does not possess particularity but have universality, as a result of which educational change is necessary. As modern social education puts emphasis on sensitivity and creativity and, therefore, understanding of art education is heightened, art is taking its place not as selective education but as required education. In particular, a systematic method for infant art education is being required now that the importance of early art education arises. Hence this study intends to examine the extent of teachers’ understanding on art education, point out the resulting problems, and establish a basis to stimulate methods for kindergarten art education.
For that end, this study conducted a survey of 200 teachers who participated in nationwide kindergarten teacher workshop, and the questionnaire has been executed based on the literature related to kindergarten art education, the questionnaire items of Hyun-Ju Lee (2003), Je-Ryun Ru (2004), and Ar-Young Park (2004). The completed questionnaire items examined demographical characteristics, the necessity of art education as a result of understanding of dancing education, educational objectives, educational contents and method understanding, management understanding, environmental understanding, and understanding of dancing education as art education, conducted frequency study of educational contents and methods, educational management, educational environment, and development request as a result of problems and improvement methods, and conducted cross tabulation to appreciate understandings of dancing education’s objective sand contents according to demographical characteristics.
The obtained results through the processes are as follows.
First, understanding of dancing education is positive, but in reality dancing education at kindergartens is not carried out or carried out irregularly. Dancing education’s objectives and curriculum should be suggested within kindergarten’s curriculum in order to stimulate dancing education at kindergartens and, therefore, dancing education as related to elementary education should be carried out.
Second, understanding of dancing education’s artistic, aesthetic, and cultural objectives should be heightened as art education, and dancing education should be generalized based upon the positive understandings of dancing education’s contents and methods, and class management.
Third, there existed differences in understanding of dancing education depending on age, teacher’s career, and the presence or absence of dancing experience. In order to resolve this problem, understanding of dancing education for teachers who start infant education should be heightened. Accordingly, understanding of dancing education should be heightened through the educational media, workshops, and seminars of dancing, and knowledge and technique of dancing should be heightened.
Fourth, facilities for dancing education should be reestablished, and the environment and method of dancing education should be improved by developing and spreading various programs. It is also necessary to have institutions and supporting mechanism that can educate specialized human resources in order to improve management problems.
Considering the results, our country’s kindergarten dancing education should construct a new objective based on aesthetic, cultural, and artistic objectives as art education, and a change of objectives is necessary in order to move towards infant’s creativity development, sensibility development, and education for the whole man through dancing education. The consequent educational contents should move towards the universality of kindergarten dancing education by developing and spreading various educational programs based on creation, performance, and appreciation. Further, in managing dancing education the efficiency of classes should be heightened through specialized dancing teachers, and as for educational environment providing wide educational spaces are the most urgent problem as dancing education requires a space to move bodies. kindergarten environment should be improved, therefore, to effectively carry out dancing education based on understanding of principals and teachers on the importance of dancing education.