This study has an aim to change their prejudice, to develop affirmative self-concept, and to make a prosocial relationship with others by offering suitable multicultural education and having young children recognize and accept the peculiarity of vario...
This study has an aim to change their prejudice, to develop affirmative self-concept, and to make a prosocial relationship with others by offering suitable multicultural education and having young children recognize and accept the peculiarity of various culture through fine arts activities of young children who will live in multicultural society. So, this thesis established study problems as followings.
1. What effect do multicultural fine arts activities have on children's establishing prejudice?
2. What effect do multicultural fine arts activities have on children's establishing self-concept?
3. What effect do multicultural fine arts activities have on children's establishing prosocial behaviors?
So, this study was performed, for 12 dates of return, on the target of J Kindergarten children located at K city. This study used examination tools. The first tool is an examination tool for children's prejudice(PRAM), which this study used by amending and complementing 「measure tool for children's prejudice」 made by William et al.(1999). This study, as an examination tool for self-concept, used self-recognition measure for children developed by Harter & Pike(1994). This study, also, used Positive Behavior Support for Young Children(PBSYC) developed by Kim Young Ok(2003) to grope for children's prosocial behaviors.
Multi-cultural artistic activities had significant difference in children's prejudice after multicultural fine arts activities were developed and applied to the activities. Subsidiary areas-prejudice on 'human race', 'appearance', and 'family construction'-were all decreased. It's why multicultural fine arts activities, through interaction between teachers and peers, brought about motivation so that they could internalize and strengthen the recognition about anti-prejudice.
Second, multicultural fine arts activities had significant difference in children's self-concept. This result showed that multicultural fine arts activities had a positive effect on establishing children's self- conception about subsidiary areas of children's self-concept such as cognitive ability,?peer acceptance,?physical ability, teacher acceptance, and self-acceptance.
Third, the children experiencing multicultural fine arts activities got higher points of prosocial behaviors than those who didn't experience them. It suggests that children's interest, through multicultural artistic activities, is brought about naturally, in the course of using multicultural fine arts materials together with peer friends, their prosocial behaviors, such as helping and dividing, are promoted, and that after all multicultural fine arts activities contribute to prosocial behaviors necessary for establishing affirmative relation with others.
In conclusion, multicultural fine arts activities, through those including various social and cultural contents, admit and accept peculiarity of various culture, change children's prejudice, and develop positive self-conception. So the activities are effective ways in establishing prosocial relation with others.