This research examines how do the integrated art education activities, using traditional cultural materials, effect young children's cognition and preference about traditional culture, aesthetic response and artistic expression ability. So this resear...
This research examines how do the integrated art education activities, using traditional cultural materials, effect young children's cognition and preference about traditional culture, aesthetic response and artistic expression ability. So this research aims at providing effective art educational methods for young children.
The research questions are as follows :
1.How do the integrated art education activities, using traditional culture materials, effect young children's cognition and preference about traditional culture?
1)How do the integrated art education activities, using traditional culture materials, effect young children's cognition about traditional culture?
2)How do the integrated art education activities, using traditional culture materials, effect young children's preference about traditional culture?
2.How do the integrated art education activities, using traditional culture materials, effect young children's aesthetic response?
1)How do the integrated art education activities, using traditional culture materials, effect on young children's visual response?
2)How do the integrated art education activities, using traditional culture materials, effect young children's assumption response?
3)How do the integrated art education activities, using traditional culture materials, effect young children's evaluative response?
3.How do the integrated art education activities, using traditional culture materials, effect young children's artistic expression ability?
1)How do the integrated art education activities, using traditional culture materials, effect young children's representation level?
2)How do the integrated art education activities, using traditional culture materials, effect young children's search level?
3)How do the integrated art education activities, using traditional culture materials, effect young children's artistic level?
In this research, 52 young children were sampled from S kindergarten in Gwang Ju city. They were divided into two groups: one experimental group(18 boys and 10 girls) and one comparative group(11 boys and 13 girls). Integrated art education activities were applied to the experimental group. And the teacher-oriented usual art education activities were applied to the comparative group.
But the same traditional culture materials were used in two groups. And the various measurement instruments were used to measure dependent variables in this research. The data, which were collected after the experimentation, were analyzed by t-test using SPSS program.
Following are the results of this research:
First, in the cognition and preference about traditional culture, the research shows that there were significant differences between the two groups relating to the cognition of traditional culture aspect, however there wasn't difference about the preference of traditional culture aspect. In other words, the research found out that the integrated art education activities, using traditional culture materials, is a more effective way to increase young children's cognition of traditional culture.
Second, in the aesthetic response aspect, there were some significant difference between the two groups. As a result of this research, the integrated art education activities, using traditional culture materials, is a more effective way to increase young children's aesthetic response ability.
Third, in the artistic expression ability aspect, there were some significant difference between the two groups. As a result of this research the integrated art education activities, using traditional culture materials, is a more effective way to increase young children's artistic expression ability.
In conclusion, the integrated art education activities, using traditional culture materials, is a more effective way to increase young children's cognition of traditional culture, aesthetic response ability and artistic expression ability. Accordingly, we can use this integrated art education activities using traditional culture materials in young children's art education field as a effective teaching method.