This study is intended to induce recognition of dance as one of education fields necessary for formation of the whole person of students who later will become courteous persons by developing creative dance programs and investigating their effects on s...
This study is intended to induce recognition of dance as one of education fields necessary for formation of the whole person of students who later will become courteous persons by developing creative dance programs and investigating their effects on self-efficacy, self-esteem, and sociality development of elementary school students.The subjects are physically and mentally healthy first and second graders without prior experiences of dance and anything relating to dance. 120 students with intent to participate in the experiment are divided into 3 groups with 40 students each: an experimental group, a comparison group, and a control group.The experimental group is given 16 one-and-a-half-hour education sessions, twice a week for 8 weeks, with creative dance programs, and the comparison group with conventional dance programs. The control group has no dance-related education for these 8 weeks. After 8 weeks of education, questionnaires are distributed to the subjects to measure their self-efficacy, self-esteem, and sociality development.SPSS version 12.0 for window is used for data analysis and the one-way ANOVA is applied to find out how much dance programs affect the development of self-efficacy, self-esteem, and sociality of students from each group. To verify significant differences among groups, Saheffe is employed. Validity and reliability of questionnaires are verified through exploratory factor analysis and reliability verification. The significance level is set to .05 for these statistical analysis methods. The results may be summarized as follows:First, comparing the experimental group with the control group, sub-categories of self-efficacy such as self-regulatory efficacy, task difficulty preference, and self-confidence are influenced by the creative dance education. The creative dance programs also have an effect on some sub-categories of self-esteem such as social self-esteem and scholastic self-esteem, but not on homelike self-esteem and overall self-esteem. There is no significant difference between the two groups for the last two sub-categories. The experimental group shows more development of sub-categories of sociability development area such as industry, interpersonal relationship, cooperation, and responsibility than the control group.Second, comparing the experimental group with the comparison group, the first experimental group educated with creative dance programs shows higher self-regulatory efficacy, task difficulty preference, and self-confidence than the second comparison group. The creative dance programs also have an effect on some sub-categories of self-esteem such as social self-esteem and scholastic self-esteem, but not on homelike self-esteem and overall self-esteem. There is no significant difference between the two groups for the last two sub-categories. The experimental group shows more development of sub-categories of sociability development area such as industry, interpersonal relationship, and cooperation, but one of the sub-categories, responsibility, does not show significant difference between the groups.