With the radical change of the modern society, the developed educational and living level makes people care about the cultural experience. It is reflected on the perceptional shift from the scholastic-centered education to the open and life-long educa...
With the radical change of the modern society, the developed educational and living level makes people care about the cultural experience. It is reflected on the perceptional shift from the scholastic-centered education to the open and life-long education.
Therefore, the museum went through a radical transform from passive functions, such as collecting and preservation to active functions, such as providing a cultural experience to the public, which makes it social educational facilities.
The children art education offers an opportunity of encountering art to the children, enhancing aesthetic sensitivity, visual perception competence, imagination, critical thinking faculty. It helps them to be developed to a whole human-being, capable of understanding, enjoying, succeeding and prospering the culture.
In addition, the museum can show the subject in the textbook to the children which makes it the best education facilities to help the children understand and enjoy the culture.
However, the education lacks financial supports and professional personnel so that the relevant programs or researches are also deficient
Thus, in this research, based on the theoretical background of the education, I intended to emphasize the importance and investigate the current children art education status.
Based on the result, the practical suggestions are like below.
First, the professional personnel are needed for the children art education.
The department that is charge of such program should be established and take responsibility of leading the program.
Second, the program’s subject should be focused on the children
The contents of the program should reflect the requirements and ideals in the educational goal. The various approaches considering different levels and interests of the children should be considered.
Additionally, the possibilities focused on the art education should be devised.
Third, the program related to exhibitions should be facilitated.
The museum’s education program should make the best use of its collection, developing various instruction types and applying them to the actual field.
Fourth, various types of programs should be developed.
The type of the programs should be extended to the various types, such as children aimed program, family program, for-school program, school associated program, internet based program.
Fifth, ‘Outreaching museum’ should be facilitated.
The operation of such programs is a kind of burden to the museums. Therefore, with ‘the outreach’ program, the museum should help the children not only view the collection but also be the part of the museum.
Based on the results in this research, further researches for the actual and practical program should be succeeded, continuing the detail and long-term researches.