Infantile (from 0 to 24 months) is very prominent period for infants` developments on physique, emotion, recognition, and sociality. For this reason, infants` religious belief should be strengthened based on the their developments of morality with the...
Infantile (from 0 to 24 months) is very prominent period for infants` developments on physique, emotion, recognition, and sociality. For this reason, infants` religious belief should be strengthened based on the their developments of morality with their swift growth. During the infantile period, infants rely both on their teachers and their parents while they attend religious services. In this sense, they should develop their piety through observing their parents and teachers` religious activities like listening sermons, praising, praying and worshiping. After the service, infants get acquainted with their peer group by sharing food and drink. This activity makes their religious belief more firm. This is the second part of the service and is called as small group gathering or divided class studying. During the first part of the service, infants understand the importance of the service through the behavior of their parents and teachers. At the second part, they develop their sociality by the relation with teachers, peer groups, and parents of other infants. To consolidate their religious belief, they need religious education in everyday life, too. I think Eurhythmics education is one of adequate pedagogy which fulfills this needs. So, in this thesis, I apply the Eurhythmics education to the small group gathering activity. Eurhythmics education is a musical educational method developed by a Swiss pedagogist, E. J. Dalcroze. The core of this teaching method is that children recognize and make their body move by listening the music and express their feeling toward it. As a consequence, they develop both their intelligence and their emotion. In Sookmyung Women`s University Graduate School of Social Education, it provides Moon Youn Kyung Eurhythmics for young children from the infantile to children age 7. This program is divided into many small classes according to their ages, so Moon Youn Kyung Eurhythmics program is appropriate to be applied to the small group gathering in churches. Music gives pleasure and satisfaction to everyone and musical education is one of the most pertinent method to improve the quality of people`s lives. In this sense, Eurhythmics pedagogy is very effective way to develop infant`s integrated whole personality and ground knowledge for art. In this thesis, I suggest one way of christianity education based on the Eurhythmics education philosophy, which is life becomes music and music becomes life, by investigating the stages of infantile development. Based on the theme praising for the service, body massages, gymnastics, various usages of musical instruments and teaching aids (toys, etc.) are arranged into a four weeks schedule using Moon Youn Kyung Eurhythmics teaching method. One important thing in this gathering is that teachers should give examples to the infants and their parents and the parents make the infants to apply them easily in daily life. By practicing this method, it is expected that an infant`s religious belief can be strengthened firmly and live a life full of worships.