The current study examined the concept of culture arts in education, looked into the history, meaning and types of social culture arts in education for young people, and investigated the actual condition and cases of social culture arts in education f...
The current study examined the concept of culture arts in education, looked into the history, meaning and types of social culture arts in education for young people, and investigated the actual condition and cases of social culture arts in education for young people by type. Also according to these, the study found out plans to activate social culture arts in education for young people in the future.
Even though the word ‘culture arts in education’ is a complicated word consisting of different three words of culture, art and education, the concept of ‘culture arts in education’ currently being discussed is “a new concept cultivating a creative, ecological and humane person who can adjust himself to new time”. ‘Culture’ presented here doesn''t mean only culture art in a narrow meaning, but has a broad meaning in literal sense of the word covering living methods transmitted in various forms as physical, emotional, ethical and intellectual composite ability, and also anthropological cultural diversity that is materialized according to the whole human potential and variety of life.
On the other hand, ‘social education’ is defined as an organized educational activity implemented for the purpose of self-realization, job improvement, social participation, etc. mainly for young people and adults except systemized education like school.
Therefore, ‘social culture arts in education for young people’ means a education cultivating a creative, ecological and humane person through culture art applying to young people in various social spaces outside school such as every kind of cultural facility, youth center, professional art group and city-type alternative school.
Although the history of culture art education is as long as the history of culture art, the expectation and necessity toward social culture arts in education became even higher as culture art education at school has shrunken by the implementation of the 7th National Curriculum. Accordingly, social culture arts in education for young people has features of ‘integrated art education’, ‘culture education’, and ‘alternative education.’
Integrated art educational approach claims that various advantages of art can function greatly as the main body of integration of subjects and an effective medium. And culture educational approach means the concept of overall reform of educational process and its methodology focusing on art subject in order to grow as a balanced person. Also, alternative educational approach insists on that culture art education is an alternative educational methodology to existing educational process and teaching method focusing on teaching only knowledge.
The scenes of social culture arts in education for young people being approached by the above three viewpoints can be classified into a criterion of the main body, a criterion of facility and a criterion of educational goal based on an article ''for improvement of social culture arts in education applying to all the nation in compliance with the responsibility of relevant facilities and organizations for culture arts in education including national or public cultural facility'' specified in the Article 20 and Article 27 of 「Culture Art Education Support Law」, and by obeying classifying criteria of Lifelong Education Law.
The following several suggestions can be made from case study on various social culture arts in education for young people home and abroad. Firstly, social culture arts in education for young people does not prepare programs suitable for learner''s diverse demands, and the number of culture art teachers and education planners in the field is insufficient. In addition to that, social culture arts in educational organizations do not have prudent consideration to educational planning, and the lack of environment to draw voluntary learning from young people is also problematic. Lastly, to secure the quality of culture arts in education in private sector is difficult due to insufficient policy support from culture arts in educational organization.
The study presented several suggestions to overcome those problems and activate social culture arts in education for young people. First of all, it is necessary to develop integrative and overall program not discriminating genre so as not to be an art education as a genre. This is because divided programs by genre can neither satisfy desire of young people nor function as an alternative teaching method.
Secondly, re-education of culture art education planners and teachers was proposed. To cultivate art culture people as teachers and to re-educate education planners in a variety of cultural facilities and lifelong educational facilities such as gallery, museum, cultural space, etc. are required because the quality of education depends on the quality of education planners and teachers.
Thirdly, it is needed to develop alternative teaching method for the activation culture arts in education. Culture arts in education should be developed as an alternative to education only for the university entrance being represented with its cramming system, teacher-centered and one-way communication. The implementation of appropriate culture arts in education requires the development of both-way, learner-centered and experiential teaching method.
Fourthly, a network with community should be reinforced. This is an important factor for the activation of social culture arts in education for young people since all kinds of material, cultural and human resources within the community are educational resources for the young people.
Fifthly, the study emphasized the plans to induce the national interest and investment along with the government''s administrative support which are related with culture policy, education policy and juvenile policy in order to activate social culture arts in education for young people.
A sense of values is formed during adolescent period and the youth wanders to find out their self-identity. Therefore, culture arts in education that raises deep understanding of knowledge and broad insight by promoting their rational thinking and emotional experience should be activated.