Art is an experiential activity by aesthetic sensitivity and visual thinking, that are, emotion and reason to experience all visual phenomena aesthetically, and art is also an activity to explore and have an insight into the essence, value, and role o...
Art is an experiential activity by aesthetic sensitivity and visual thinking, that are, emotion and reason to experience all visual phenomena aesthetically, and art is also an activity to explore and have an insight into the essence, value, and role of art through interaction between the individual and society. As such art expanded into the realm of 'life', people realized that art is a way of 'knowing' the world, and the main goal was to develop the ability to perceive the world aesthetically through art education. The ability to perceive aesthetically means the ability to understand the meaning of the world around learners from various perspectives and to accept critically, centering on the visual environment. In addition, it refers to the ability to understand and judge meaning from various perspectives such as aesthetic, social, cultural, and historical through sensitivity to formative language and communication through formative language. In order to develop the ability to recognize aesthetically, it is necessary to understand and master the formative language, which is the language of art, and to develop and solve the problems closely related to real life with healthy aesthetics. The role of art education is to help students develop visual thinking and judgment skills effectively, and to discover the meaning and value of life.
Therefore, this study aims to consider the meaning of 'aesthetic experience' in order to understand the integrated experience in life through art for the purpose of 'insight through art in life' and to enchance 'visual literacy‘ in order to emphasize the cognitive aspect, rather than being limited to the emotional side in a way that art knows the world. And in order to enchance the practical basis and validity of the 'aesthetic experience', it was based on the achievement standards and teaching and learning methods in the 'experience' field of the 2015 revised curriculum and Arts-PROPEL, an art-oriented constructivist project learning method, was used considering that 'aesthetic experience' requires an integrated experience in relation to art in life, and 'visual literacy' requires an integrated approach to expression and appreciation.
The contents of this study are as follows.
In Chapter 2, I tried to grasp the meaning and characteristics of “aesthetic experience” in that proper understanding of the area in which art activities will be performed must take precedence to deal with learning elements with appropriate learning methods. First, the aesthetic experiences, which have various meanings according to the trend of the times and cognitive changes, were divided into modern and contemporary meanings. Also, in order to understand how the aesthetic experience was practically constructed in the curriculum, the content system of the area corresponding to the aesthetic experience was analyzed from the 6th curriculum to the 2015 revised curriculum. Through theoretical considerations on aesthetic experience, the value of aesthetic experience and educational justification were revealed, and by examining the flow of curriculum that deals practically with aesthetic experience, I pointed out the problems and suggested the right direction.
In Chapter 3, I grasped the meaning and components of art to enhance 'visual literacy' in order to emphasize cognitive aspects as a way for art to know the world. First, I looked at definitions of visual literacy from different perspectives to help understand visual literacy. And through the analysis of the components of visual literacy by group of scholars, I confirmed that visual literacy is not limited to the area of appreciation but can be integrated in the field of expression and appreciation. And I suggested that it is necessary to take an integrated approach to enchance visual literacy, categorized the components of visual literacy in accordance with the learning principles of the learning model to be applied, extracted the necessary components and applied them to specific learning activities.
In chapter 4, I preceded the understanding of arts propel, which is used to seek guidance for improving visual literacy. I understood the background of Art PROPEL and made it possible to grasp its characteristics clearly by comparing traditional and constructivist educational views. In addition, through the understanding of learning contents, methods, and processes of Art PROPEL, it can be an appropriate direction for the 'aesthetic experience' of experiencing art in life, given that the constructivist learning method deals with real-life problems centered on learners and emphasizes the process of solving the problems. In addition, it was confirmed that Arts-PROPEL, an art-oriented project learning method through perception, creation, and reflection, is an appropriate learning method in that an integrated approach is needed to enhance 'visual literacy'. Based on these contents, the direction of instruction was set based on the achievement standards and teaching and learning methods suggested in the experience area of the 2015 revised curriculum, and the extracted components of visual literacy were applied to the learning activities of Arts-PROPEL to design a guidance plan to enhance visual literacy.
Through this, learners feel aesthetic sensibility in daily life and activate visual thinking so that reason and sensibility can be harmonized, and the individual life and art can be comprehensively approached. And I made it possible to suggest that art is a high-level cognitive activity that can draw insights into life through interaction between the individual and society, and is an experience activity by aesthetic sensitivity and visual thinking, that are, sensitivity and reason.