Our society in the 21st century is in a big shift and faces many complications with high industrialization, information and internationalization than ever before. To cope with this environment, the arts education should aim to create something new and...
Our society in the 21st century is in a big shift and faces many complications with high industrialization, information and internationalization than ever before. To cope with this environment, the arts education should aim to create something new and to probe various solutions, so as to deal with diverse problems in everyday life with flexibility. For this social request, it is important that each curriculum should be connected with others, considering the formation of the whole personality of students in the revised education course and the 7th education course, which is the integrated program.
The education of Arts in schools should emphasize the integration of experiences now. Then, the learners come to have interests in novelty and creative ideas through the art education. This study can lead you to know that these ideas and interests can produce voluntary works. Most of the present education, however, hardly has connection among the subjects, and the learners have uncreative and passive learning rather than creative and self-active.
The present integrated program coordinates and reconstructs the experiences of children, which means the education for the whole man through the integration of development areas of children and the integration of activities in each area. It is important that the integration of experiences is demanded to reach self-realization and to promote social consciousness in the courses of education for the whole man and the human oriented courses. The integrated program is necessary in this sense. The art department in which visual languages act as intermediaries is more sensitive to the currency of culture than other departments. Thus, it becomes the main subject to integrate it with different subjects with cultural topics. The present educational environment of fine arts, however, still depends on the results of practical performances instead of the appreciation of art. Therefore, this study has tried to integrate the appreciation of art in fine arts with speaking and hearing areas which impose the logical abilities on the students.
The purpose of the study is to examine the influences which the integrated approaches of the appreciation on art works and Korean speaking and hearing have on the learning motives and performance of elementary school students. In this study, the 5th graders are the subjects for the class of the art appreciation integrated with Korean class. The subjects were two classes of the 5th graders in W elementary school in Seoul. In the class of art appreciation integrated with Korean speaking and hearing, they wrote the descriptions of their impressions on artistic works, after they learned the definitions of analysis and classification from the Korean class. Through the results of their performances, the surveys before and after the class and their descriptions on artistic works, this study compares and analyzes the differences of the learning motives and performances between the group with the integrated appreciation class and the group with the traditional art appreciations class.
The researcher of this study, referring to the check list for the learning motive by Joo Hye-yoon (2009), modified and complemented the check list for the topic of this study so as to check the learning motives. I also evaluated the students’ performance in fine arts, with using the writing examinations which were produced referring to the questions in each chapter by Edunet and the fine art talent testing tools referring to the sample evaluating tools of the art subject in the elementary school by Kim Seong-dong (2001). Then, the results and statistics were analyzed by the program of SPSS ver 12.0k.
The results of this study are as followings;
First, the group that belonged to the integrated class of fine arts and Korean received higher grades than the controlled group, in terms of the evaluation of learning motivation on curiosity, relevancy, confidence, satisfaction and durability of motives.
Second, the group in the integrated class received higher grades in the writing examinations than the controlled group.
Third, the group in the integrated class of fine arts and Korean received higher grades than the controlled group in every sub-area such as expressing topics, using methods of expression, understanding the formative elements and principles and using materials and tools in practical tests. As a result, the integrated program of the fine art subject and Korean has influenced positively on the improvement of the learning motive and performance of the 5th graders in an elementary school.
This study has significance in that it has verified the educational effects of the integrated program by investigating the influences that the integrated program of art and Korean has on the learning motives and performances of students. Moreover, it is meaningful that the study can become a fundamental material to expand the application of the integrated program in elementary schools.
In the future, the endeavors to integrate art and other subjects will continue to be made in elementary schools. To bring merits of each subject into relief and to apply them, the learning and teaching process of art should be suggested as a frame of the systematical integrated program which contains the characteristics of the art department.