The objective of this study is to inquire into the influence of dance education on infant's development in creativity that holds a very important area in infant's life, which is the fundamental basis of adolescence and adulthood.
Based on this study o...
The objective of this study is to inquire into the influence of dance education on infant's development in creativity that holds a very important area in infant's life, which is the fundamental basis of adolescence and adulthood.
Based on this study objective, this study addresses the influence of dance education on infant's development in adaptability, fluency, originality, imagination in the creativity area of language, shape and body.
This study chose 30 out 60 infants as the experiment group and chose remaining 30 infants as the comparison group to conduct trace-back education. Then, infant's Overall Creativity Test made by Jeon Gyeong-won was used to conduct preliminary examination, experimental management and post-examination for 8 weeks.
Although there wasn't any significant difference found in preliminary examination between experiment group and comparison group, there was a significant difference in creativity found between preliminary examination and post-examination for each gruop. This indicates that dance education is effective in the subordinate concept of language, shape and body areas of creativity development, fluency,
adaptability, originality and imagination. Furthermore, it was known that dance education have positive influence in infant's developing period of creativity.
Dance education can play an important role in infant's creativity development and in order to develop infant's creativity and expressivity using body, educational institution for infant shoul execute dnace education as an activity of creative body expression. In this study, dance education executed for shot-term dance education is executed for this infants, it is predicated to have bigger influence on infant's creativity development.