The basic principle for integrated music curriculum of ‘After School’ is to provide more art education opportunities especially for the children from lower-income families, and to maximize the musical potentials of the learners. For this purpose, ...
The basic principle for integrated music curriculum of ‘After School’ is to provide more art education opportunities especially for the children from lower-income families, and to maximize the musical potentials of the learners. For this purpose, the integrated music curriculum of ‘After School’ provides the various art environment and needs to be settled in order to maximize their art potentials, to nurture their various sensibility including the music, to realize the cultural value in the private daily life and to increase the learners\ art and cultural capabilities such as the understanding others and other culture. Current music curriculum divided into each art area may not meet various needs from the students. For this purpose, this study is proceeded in the following methods. First, as its theoretical background of the integrated music curriculum of ‘After School’, the concept both of \ After School\ and of culture and art are examined. Second, the nature of the integrated music curriculum of ‘After School’ is identified in order to differentiate it with the existing regular music class and private music education. Third, with respect to each 7 art areas(music, art, dancing, reading, media, animation and play), a model is developed to enable 24-hour/semester integrated music education of ‘After school\ . Fourth, in order to increase the efficiency of the integrated music education of ‘After school\ , this paper presents the example of the instructive model by classifying the experience-oriented, comprehension-oriented, communication- oriented curriculums according to the education contents, so that the teachers may freely select and apply the model.