The study was made about art therapy to enhance the sense of self-esteem of children from multi-cultural homes, mainly with the elementary students of 1st, 2nd and 3rd grades. Thanks to international marriage and increase of foreign laborsby social at...
The study was made about art therapy to enhance the sense of self-esteem of children from multi-cultural homes, mainly with the elementary students of 1st, 2nd and 3rd grades. Thanks to international marriage and increase of foreign laborsby social atmosphere and economic reasons during 1990~2005, the Korea society is changing into a multi-cultural society. According to the National Statistical Office, the weight of international marriages out of total marriages in Korea accounted for 13.6% in 2005 and in particularly 35.9% in agricultural and fishing area in 2006. From this phenomenon, day-by-day growing of multi-cultural homes is inviting social issues since they failed to mingle into the culture due to the educational problem for the children of such homes, the social prejudice and the stereotype. Moreover, because of female immigrants’ language and culture environment, their children who reach the age entering school are suffering from difficulties to have a smooth school life.
It was investigated that about 2 out of 10 children from multi-cultural homes experienced bullying in school. The rate of Korean elementary students who experienced bullying was similar but the reasons for bullying were definitely different. The bullying reason for Korean elementary students was that they showed off while the 34.1% children from multi-cultural homes were analyzed to have been bullied simply because their mothers were foreigners. As such a reason is not a matter of the will of children themselves from multi-cultural homes, they faced emotional insecurity, shock, suicide, urge, hostility and low self-identity with which they failed to adapt to school life and, in consequence, 8,000 students were put aside from the school umbrella. To sort out this problem, the government is implementing various policies but they are not enough to accommodate all the problems of the multi-cultural homes. Thus, the government is cooperating with organizations, local authorities and religion groups as a compromise.
The human itself realize that they are the valuable beings, are qualified to claim what they need and want, have the right to enjoy the outcome from their efforts, believe they can become happy and develop the sense of self-existence. Nevertheless, education for social recognition and multi-culture should be made so that the children from multi-cultural homes can grow stable in society and at home.
In order to help the children reaching the age entering school to enhance the understanding of the multi-culture and raise self-accomplishment, both art education that is most free of precautions in studies and art psychological therapy helping to have the sense of sound self-identity by psychologically understanding others than the self are suggested together as the direction that the education heads. Also, the relationship between the multi culture and the art education should be systematically explained and culturally rich thinking should be made in consideration of acceptance and characteristics of the multi-culture, whereby the talents who are able to actively participate in the change into globalization with global consciousness can be brought up. The programs of art education and art psychology therapy are the basic science that helps to understand the self beyond the self position and multi-cultural propensity towards diverse thinking and to develop balanced ego. At the same time, they are able to give a mental stability by disclosing psychological insecurity and dissatisfaction feeling.
The art psychology therapy program was done to 4 1st grade elementary students from multi-cultural homes so as to identify their psychological status and the ego from the unconsciousness of the self and to implement education to make them right thinking and positive attitude, by which it aimed to enhance culture understanding, sense of self-identity and balanced self-esteem.