The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of music activities though forest on the development of the music ability of preschoolers. The following research questions were posed:
1. Are there any gaps in improved music ability between an exp...
The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of music activities though forest on the development of the music ability of preschoolers. The following research questions were posed:
1. Are there any gaps in improved music ability between an experimental group that participates in music activities in forest and a control group that doesn't?
1-1. Are there any intergroup gaps in an improved sense of sound?
1-2. Are there any intergroup gaps in an improved sense of rhythm?
2. Are there any differences in improved music ability between an experimental group that participates in music activities in forest and a control group that doesn't according to age?
The subjects in this study were 26 kindergarteners who were at the Western age of 3 and 4. Out of them, 13 preschoolers from Forest Kindergarten were grouped into an experimental group, and the other 13 preschoolers from another kindergarten were selected as a control group. Both kindergartens were located in Yeonsu-gu, Incheon.
This study was implemented in the procedure of pretest, experiment, posttest and data handling. The instrument used in this study was Gordeon(1986)'s PMMA, and the experiment was conducted 14 times from the third week of September to the first week of November, 2009.
A SPSS 11.5 program was employed to make an independent-samples t-test to find out the influence of the music activities through forest on the development of their music ability. The level of statistical significance was set at a=.05.
The findings of the study were as follows:
First, as a result of assessing their sense of sound before and after they were engaged in music activities in forest, the music activities through forest served to boost their sense of sound, and the level of their improvement was statistically significant.
Second, as a result of evaluating their sense of rhythm before and after they were engaged in music activities in forest, the music activities through forest contributed to bolstering their sense of rhythm, and the level of their improvement was statistically significant.
Third, as a result of checking their sense of sound by gender before and after they were engaged in music activities in forest, the music activities through forest had a statistically significantly better effect on the sense of rhythm of the preschoolers aged 3 in Western age than that of those aged 4.
Fourth, as a result of investigating their sense of rhythm by gender before and after they were engaged in music activities in forest, the music activities through forest had a statistically significantly better effect on the sense of rhythm of the preschoolers aged 3 than that of those aged 4.
The above-mentioned findings illustrated that the music activities through forest exerted a positive influence on the development of the music ability of preschoolers.