Singing songs is the most natural pleasure that can be enjoyed by human, and also is a noble method of being able to express own feelings. So, teaching beautiful children's songs could be said as requiring certainly for managing pleasant school life a...
Singing songs is the most natural pleasure that can be enjoyed by human, and also is a noble method of being able to express own feelings. So, teaching beautiful children's songs could be said as requiring certainly for managing pleasant school life and further forming good personality.
By the way, children nowadays are cheering and going crazy to pops and dance music having been made for adults. At main subjects in Korean pops, they are dealing with romantic relationships between women and men, and various aspects of feeling that have been occurred from its relations, and further emotional farewells are treated most frequently.
Children who are insufficient in judgements yet and unstable in emotions are exposed to all kinds of broadcasting media such as television, radio, and Internet etc almost defenselessly. Therefore, this study aims at giving helps to children for making singing actualized with abundant musical emotions by grasping effects of constant teaching on children's songs on their emotional intelligence and sociability.
Research matters according to its purposes are same as followings.
A. Are there effects to children's emotional intelligences from teaching children's songs?
B. Are there effects to developments of children's sociability from teaching children's songs?
C. Which effect's differences are appeared by gender to emotional intelligences and sociability from teaching children's songs?
For carrying out this research, the study made characteristics of children's musical growth developments, pitch extents according to growth stages, and lyrics by educational values of children's songs as selecting standards. This study selected total 15 songs after getting advises from specialists, and instructed children's songs by developing a teaching-learning plan after considering access activities of emotional intelligence and cooperative learning model. The study did pre-test investigation on 40 questions on emotional intelligences and sociability respectively by objecting to 90 students of the 4th grade in S Elementary School located in Seoul, and then analyzed collected data, and thus got conclusions as follows.
First, teaching of children's songs had significant effects to enhancement of children's emotional intelligences. Specially, there were significant effects from emotional recognition and expression, thought's promotions, and emotional applications. While singing children's songs, children became to have interests in emotional status having been felt by others more, and the to utilize the songs as a method of expressing oneself.
Second, teaching children's songs was insufficient in significant effects statistically for making enhancements of children's sociability. Though teaching lyrics or cooperative activities during instructing children's songs could bring up children's sociability, but it was lack in causing significant results statistically. So, forthcoming researches that look into changes of post-teachings of children's songs for more long-term period or apply it by enlarging group activities such as duet and chorus etc are judged to be necessary.
Third, in emotional recognition and expression scopes among emotional intelligence's scopes, schoolboys were more developed that schoolgirls through teaching children's songs. Though most people thought that schoolgirls liked singing children's songs a little more for the meanwhile, but a fact could be known through this research results such like singing children's songs gave helps to schoolboys too. This result could be interpreted that schoolboys got helps in accepting emotions of others, and expressing own feelings so as to be fit to situations through singing children's songs, even though pre-test results were low because they were not familiar with emotional recognitions and expressing activities ordinarily.
Though above results, a fact is confirmed that signing children's songs gives helps to emotional intelligences' developments of children. This point can explain the justification of having to sing children's songs by children. Also, this study will be helpful to teachers in teaching children's songs with sense of purposes such like children's emotional purification, not for simple repertories only.