Ministry of Education, Science and Technology had announced guide lines of an education of Creativity?Personality in 2010 to focus on developing teaching methods. According to the guide lines, an education of Creativity?Personality will be applied in ...
Ministry of Education, Science and Technology had announced guide lines of an education of Creativity?Personality in 2010 to focus on developing teaching methods. According to the guide lines, an education of Creativity?Personality will be applied in the 100 elementary schools that had been selected and operated as a model school.
An education of Creativity?Personality emphasizes own importances and roles of creativity and personality educations in order to raise right people for the 21st century. Also, it means social and literary value, educational philosophy and strategy to cultivate creativity by systematic combination of both creativity and personality educations as well as themselves.
In the area of Art subject, an education of Creativity?Personality is using Experiential activity, Integration of art subjects, Intensive completion program, Block time program according to the 2009 revision of Art subject curriculum. The purpose of this methods is to show that Art education has been changing to student activity-centered and to expect more efficiency of operating classes.
Art education has unique characteristics seeking a balanced growth of humans rather that other subject educations. Therefore, it has been considered that Art education can be aligned to the way of personality education, 'Esthetics' or 'Esthetic sensibility' and creativity education.
Based on this background, an elementary art education should be modified more and to raise creativity and personality of children. Also, in this regard a research of teachers for planing and developing teaching methods should be needed.
From this situation and needs this research was started and it has something in common to the education method of Lincon Center Institute in the view of general creativity and personality consideration.
The main purpose and way are to analyze how an art education can affect children's ego-resilience. this paper shows the relations between an art education with systematic combination of creativity and personality and children's ego-resilience.
Unlike other educations, an art education can help children to express themselves and have good component for their creativity and also, it can induce children's balanced growth. Therefore, there are the differences between the conventional art education and the revision one including creativity and personality in this paper. Currently the children's ego-resilience has been appeared as a basic concept to understand children's emotion and this research is using this one. As to the understanding of creative art eduction, this research analyzed the current education method and based on the result, this paper suggests a new program named as Art education of Creativity?Personality. Experts of children's art education, elementary teachers and highschool teachers have been discussing about this new program. According to the discussion it is agreed that the contents of the current art education is existing and discussion time should be added in a class in order to help children have good creativity and personality.
The specific procedure of this research is like that, first the target children are 100 elementary students from the first to sixth year grade and they are divided into two groups depending on whether they had the Art education of Creativity?Personality. The experimental group is composed students having the Art education of Creativity?Personality but, the comparative group is composed students that didn't that.
The ego-resilience tests are performed before and after 12 times art classes. The results of these tests are analyzed by the tool of SPSS 18.0
From the results of this measurement, there's no change in children's ego-resilience in the comparative group but, there's positive change appeared in the experimental group. The results can be definitely interpreted that the Art education of Creativity?Personality can help children's growth in the view of creativity and personality. Therefore, the results show good suitability of the Art education of Creativity?Personality for every children. Recently the role of all educations to bring up children's creativity and personality has been emerging. The Art education of Creativity?Personality is closely related with ego-resilience of children. From this research, it is verified that this new education program can help creativity and personality growth of children beyond esthetic effects of normal art education.
Above all things children's ego-resilience is an important motive of children's growth in creativity and personality. It means art education should be changed to focus on children's creativity and personality. This research can be a turning point in the time to start thinking of the change of the conventional art education.