The current fine arts education of our country changes its aim from the education centered expression which follows in steps the past expressive function to the education centered students' human nature and originality. However, today's fine arts educ...
The current fine arts education of our country changes its aim from the education centered expression which follows in steps the past expressive function to the education centered students' human nature and originality. However, today's fine arts education is losing its original role because it is biased toward the education of the competitive and delivering only knowledge, which is caused by the knowledge basis society due to the industrialization and informationalization.
Therefore, this study is going to describe the importance of the fine arts subject from the view point that the fine arts is to treat human mind, such as human sensitivity or thought. In order to grope a new direction of the fine arts education, this study is also going to examine the program applied by the Art Therapy, which helps to enhance human being's psychologically stabile feeling and emotion, to the fine arts education.
The Art Therapy has the immanent educational character and attaches importance in process of work activity rather than its result. The subject of the Art Therapy is the people whose body and mind are in difficulty. So, Art Therapy is originally to diagnose the wounds of their minds and to cure them by the fine arts work and its producing process. However, if we consider the original healing function of the fine arts, it is expected that the fine arts education applied by the fine arts therapeutic method is going to do a big role in the education for the emotion and human nature education of the general school students. And also, the Art Therapy has several goals, such as a psychologically satisfying feeling by a moulding activity, a realization of the latent ability by an original expression, an emotionally stable feeling by a sensitivity revelation, a self understanding by an unconscious expression, and an augmentation of the self respect feeling by a self expression. The Art Therapy with these objects has a close relationship with the goal of today's fine arts education.
So, this study aims to give not only problematic students but also general students a warm love, an open thought and mind, and an effect of the human nature education. For the purpose, this study is going to examine the program of the fine arts education grafted by the Art Therapy. The current fine arts education forces students to copy a fragmentary knowledge and the objects and to make their works according to a uniform process. Thus, for applying the Art Therapy method to the fine arts education, this study also aims to research and apply the fine arts educational program in which teachers and students are able to do together.
For this purpose, in this paper was practically set a unit of 'Discovering Myself', and it is applied to the actual classwork. The unit of 'Discovering Myself' is a classwork which can help students to have a psychologically stable feeling and happiness resulted from forming young people's own self-identities and dissolving their stress.
The object of the classwork was the middle school freshmen in adolescence who needed their psychologically stable feelings. A fine arts educational program applied by the Art Therapy was developed and carried out in four class sessions. The subject of each classwork was as follows: 'Expressing my past, present and future by collage' in the first and second classwork, 'expressing present in the third classwork' and 'making the object which I dislike' in the fourth classwork. By making the object with clay which they disliked most, they were able to dissolve their stress, to relax their aggressive attitudes, and to get psychological purification and emotionally stable feelings.
The results of the program were produced by analysing students' works, their own evaluations and presentations, and questionnaires. The fine arts education applied by Art Therapy has illustrated us an educational possibility to provide a good data on the education for human being's nature and teacher's understanding and consultation for his students.