Korean music play is one of educational methods about national traditional music that could step up the development of young children's musicality and creativity by using interesting play and traditional children's songs.
Traditional children's songs...
Korean music play is one of educational methods about national traditional music that could step up the development of young children's musicality and creativity by using interesting play and traditional children's songs.
Traditional children's songs have been embellished, created and sung by children without being stereotyped. Children represent their ideas and feelings in diverse ways by sing songs, and thereby create new songs and new play culture. And they are able to create new Korean culture in the course of soaking up the basic styles of Korean music.
The purpose of this study was to configure extensive teaching- learning methods about traditional music play and to examine their effect on the creativity development of lower graders in elementary school.
The subjects in this study were 52 students in Nuweon Elementary School in Seoul. Out of them, 23 students who belonged to a traditional music play club, one of after-school classrooms, were grouped into an experimental group. A traditional music play program was provided to them in 20 sessions for 13 weeks after school. The other 29 students who were selected as a control group received traditional music instruction just in class titled 'Merry Life' according to a teacher's manual.
The traditional music play program provided to the experimental group consisted of a variety of activities to which various teaching methods for modern music were applied: acquiring Sigimsae and rhythmic patterns by using traditional Gujeonsimsubeop(referring to teaching through spoken language and heart), singing according to Kodaly music method's musical measure reading, physical sign, hand sign and finger sign, composition/improvisation based on Orff approach, impromptu expression according to Dalcroze's eurhythmics, and listening/improvisation/ discussion based on MMCP's conceptual approach.
To find out the consequence of the experiment, multidimensional evaluation was implemented in an inclusive manner.
Whether there were any changes in their values and attitude toward Korean classical music was checked, and it's found that the children underwent a positive change in the two regards.
Their interest in the national classical music play programs was evaluated in every session, and the results of the evaluation were utilized to get a feedback. It's found that the children had much interest in the national traditional music play, and participated in it a lot. They became confident of the play, and were actively engaged in the activities.
In terms of musical creativity, various evaluation methods were put to use, such as self-evaluation, performance assessment, portfolio and observation method, to assess their fundamental and creative expressiveness, and it's confirmed that they made progress in that aspect.
As for general creativity, the experimental group and control group were tested by using Korea Educational Development Institute's Cognitive Creativity(fluency, flexibility, originality and elaborateness) Inventory and Affective Creativity Inventory.
As a result, the experimental group scored higher than the control group in fluency, flexibility and elaborateness in general. The former's high score seemed to be attributed to their creative expressiveness acquired during the interesting play activities, their improved learning attitude and permissive learning atmosphere. However, originality couldn't be developed on a short-term basis, and long-term education and inborn factors might have a greater impact on that.
Creative people will take the lead in future society. One of top priorities elementary national classical music education is faced with will be to provide early education for lower graders to be well-grounded in Korean tradition and have plenty of musicality and creativity. Inclusive national classical music education should be provided to infants and kindergarteners, and more energetic research efforts should be channeled into developing a systematic curriculum by linking preschool education and third-grade elementary education and preparing comprehensive teaching-learning methods.