Now we live in the age of sensibility. This is derived from a new sensibility-oriented paradigm in modern society focusing on sensitivity rather than human rationality, such as sensitivity marketing, sensitivity leader, and sensitivity education. In s...
Now we live in the age of sensibility. This is derived from a new sensibility-oriented paradigm in modern society focusing on sensitivity rather than human rationality, such as sensitivity marketing, sensitivity leader, and sensitivity education. In such a periodical paradigm, color that can arouse human sensitivity and five senses is emerging as an object of interest and attention society-wise, and serves as a crucial, indispensable factor in the age of sensibility.
Together with sensibility, color can be related to human sense including sight, taste, hearing, smell, and touch, which is called 'color synaestesia', and the synesthetic characteristics are shown in children more distinctively, rather than adults. However, as children of our age are lacking in experience of many different colors and five senses, they often cannot see even if they try to see, and cannot smell even if they try to smell. Children see and perceive the world through color, and find and create new things through a stimulus of five senses. In other words, as experience in color and five senses can create synaestesia, it is the most direct, effective method to develop children's sensibility.
Thus, this study herein offers many different synesthetic experiences that stimulate sensibility and five senses of the lower grade elementary school students, and based on this, it develops color association revealed in children of our age. For this study, 2nd grade elementary school students in the same age were divided into two groups A and B, and different stimuli of five senses were offered to them by making difference in the method of stimulating and the order of it. An experimental study was conducted on a total of 19 sense adjectives based on a sense of sight, taste, hearing, smell, and touch, and results on association color derived from the experimental study were analyzed and summarized. Further, comparatively analyzed and verified was a difference of association color distribution of the two groups each different in the method of stimulating and the order of it. Results derived from this are as follows.
First, results of children's association color through synesthetic association show difference and characteristics in association color by sense.
Second, when making a difference in the method of stimulating and the order of it in children associating synesthetic color, distributional area of association color is different from one another.
Third, when making a difference in the method of stimulating and the order of it in children associating synesthetic color, distribution of association color shows the biggest difference in taste, out of the five senses (i.e. sight, taste, hearing, smell, and touch).
Fourth, in children of our age associating synesthetic color, obtained can be results on what difference and characteristics are shown between theoretical data of color synaestesia and the experimental research for this study.
Fifth, general children, not synaethetes, also can associate color on each of the senses such as sight, taste, hearing, smell, and touch through synesthetic color association.
Human beings have obtained and created products all integrated into the world through what they perceived by their senses. In particular, children's color synaestesia and color association obtained from experience in color and five senses can simultaneously develop rational parts as well as sensible parts in a harmonious manner, which is an education method to cultivate sensitivity and creativity. This study has significance in that it offers important database for approaches of color synaestesia and synesthetic education in various fields for children, and will require various, systematic follow-up research on synesthetic education for children in future.