This study aims to develop programs building creative characters through art play therapeutic approaches and by applying them into the 3rd and 4th elementary school curriculums seek for ways to improve children’s creativity through the public art ed...
This study aims to develop programs building creative characters through art play therapeutic approaches and by applying them into the 3rd and 4th elementary school curriculums seek for ways to improve children’s creativity through the public art education.
To this end, this study understood concepts of creativity and creative characters and characteristics and to find out foundations for applying art play therapeutic functions into the school looked into the concept of art plays, educational values, art plays and characters, and therapeutic education. Besides, it investigated the meaning through art play therapeutic approaches by understanding art and plays therapeutically.
To develop this study’s program, about 40 precedent studies were analyzed to improve sub-factors of creative characters. In doing so, the study found out foundations applying art play therapeutic approaches to the 3rd and 4th elementary school curriculums and discussed how to
complement the precedent studies that aimed to boost factors of creative characters. In addition, it presented art education programs with art play therapeutic approaches for development of creative characters by analyzing the program target and developing art play therapeutic art education programs that can apply not only therapeutic techniques and factors of art plays but also learning
factors of the third and fourth art education, to the curriculums.
The findings of this study are summarized as follows. The art education program in terms of art play therapeutic approaches is expected to have a positive impact on creative character development of the third and fourth graders. An art education program was organized by taking
sub-factors of creative characters as a detailed object: self-assurance, independence, task commitment, curiosity and openness. These factors will show significant improvement.
Such a finding means that a study on art play therapeutic
approaches aiming at normal children and the applicability of therapeutic potentials of art and plays could play an important role in development of creative characters that are becoming significant in current educational environments. Furthermore, it could find out applicability of art play therapeutic approaches to creativity educational programs based on links with current curriculums.
Therefore, it is hoped that models with various and detailed art play therapeutic approaches that can be applied to the real elementary school field and efficient programs will be studied and the findings will be used more professionally and consistently.