The children, who are growing in the modern society - the industrialization, information, variety-oriented epoch - are living without connecting the nature and have the various physical, mental problems occurred from TV, computer and after-school stud...
The children, who are growing in the modern society - the industrialization, information, variety-oriented epoch - are living without connecting the nature and have the various physical, mental problems occurred from TV, computer and after-school studies. The activities at forest, which were designed to solve those problems, purpose to enhance the nature-friendly attitude and the creative power among children through the educational activities using the natural materials, which are living with the nature.
The forest activities, which are in the limelight of many people as efficient educational activities, are now being performed by many professional organizations concerning the forest and the national parks and operated with the contents including the observation activities of natural materials, the moulding activities and the musical activities.
The forest activities as such help children enhance not only the nature-friendly attitude but also the investigation, expression, and creation power, so they need to develop programs according to various materials.
The forest has been used as material for artistic expression since the past and has give an influence to producing artistic work, providing creative insight to work construction. Accordingly, children can have the creative expression activities, exploring and imagining the natural things in the different ways each other. The children thus can develop the physical expression and the creativity through experience with using their bodies as an expression equipment. So, the creative dance, a kind of movement activity, is an activity to make his or her emotion and demand express creatively through his or her body, so it can contribute to the cognition, justice development as well as the physical one. In other words, the creative dance education is the educational activity for raising the creative persons befitting the 21th century.
This study purposed to develop the nature-friendly attitude, expressive ability, creative ability and socialization for children and, on the basement of the theory and the current situation on the forest activities and the educational value on the creative dance, presented a creative dance program using the forest natural materials - that is, some program examples befitting the characteristic by the season.
The content of this study centering on the documentary study consists of the theory and current situation of forest activities, the theory and educational value of creative dance and the value of creative dane using the natural materials, and the theoretical system was formed through collecting those and analyzing on those.
As a result, the newly developed creative dance programs for forest activities are follows:
First, the purpose, on the basement of the eco-friendly education and the creative education, is the recognition on the relationship between human being and nature and on the movement factor, the movement skill and expression ability, the creativity and the social attitude development.
Second, the contents are performed as the preparation of body and mind, the natural materials exploration, the creative dance activities and the feeling distribution, and the creative dance activity of them develops from impromptu expression to imaginary one. And the concrete teaching method makes children discover and understand the movement factors and, on the basement of the result, makes them develop imaginative ability, creative one and problem solution one.
Third, the guide method, centering on problem solution and exploration, consists of following, explaining, expressing and discussing to help strengthen the expression ability, critical thought, intellectual curiosity amon children.
Fourth, the evaluation consists of one by teacher and students and is largely divided into justice, emotion and recognition field.
The creative dance program for forest activities constructed as the above is the learning to pue influence to the nature-friendly attitude, the expression ability, the creative ability development for children and can be included into a new course within the forest activities being now performed in Korea, so, according to the course, children can harmonize the physical and mental development through the dance in the nature within city.