Through integrated education with disable and normal young children who are understanding the differences of each other without any prejudice, it is need to form the positive self-concept and to manage the happiness in their future life.
This research...
Through integrated education with disable and normal young children who are understanding the differences of each other without any prejudice, it is need to form the positive self-concept and to manage the happiness in their future life.
This research was performed in order to know the effect of Therapeutic Music Play Program created by researcher to the development of self-concept of young children in a part of integrated education. For this purpose, an integrated class was organized with four disabled and three normal children, and performed total 16 times of Therapeutic Music Play Program to them on the basis of twice an week for 30 min. They were observed the change of self-concept before and after treatment using self-concept investigation tool. The Therapeutic Music Play Program used in this experiment was developed by the researcher reconstituting the 4 different children's stories with new lyrics. Singing and songwriting techniques were applied for expanding children's thought, and percussion play and improvisation were applied for expressing their performance more freely.
SPSS 12.0 statistics program was used for Wilcoxon signed rank test, a nonparametric test.
As a result of conducting Therapeutic Music Play Program, there was not much differences in terms of Physical Concept development. However, relation with Friend Concept and General Self Concept observed statistically significant difference at the viable level of 0.05.
Moreover, changes in the observed behavior of the young children for each individual were clear. Generally, they increased positively in their mutual interaction and self-confidence after the application of Therapeutic Music Play Program.
Particularly, the disabled children were showed more progressive self-concept and positive mutual interaction than the normal children. Because they could contemplate the other members in music play, and understand the differences in each other, also experience the self-expression through percussion play and the participation in music play. Therefore, the Therapeutic Music Play Program as an integrated education should be helped to increase the self-concept of children.