This research stats from how better to start Science Technoligy Engineering Art Mathmatics (STEAM) converged education in South Korea. The Korean government has noted STEM educational methods underway for the purpose of convergence beyond school syste...
This research stats from how better to start Science Technoligy Engineering Art Mathmatics (STEAM) converged education in South Korea. The Korean government has noted STEM educational methods underway for the purpose of convergence beyond school system integration as performed in the US, UK, France, Finland, Australia, etc to resolve their students’ poor performance in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
In step with this trend, Korea, for creative and converged talent nurturing, has pursued policies emphasizing the convergence between science, technology and art which had been viewed only separately before.
However, still, Korea has lower awareness on such converged talent nurturing methods in the educational field and has not seen appropriate art class model development for wrong understanding about this. As to such problems, the present research author, as a researcher studying fine art, has understood that the government’s policy goal of nurturing converged talent would be better supported if art classes deal with more than artistry such as science, technology, mathematics and other ecological aspects.
To this end, the author examined Theo Jansen’s works and proposed and analyzed the possibility of its application to a class model. Theo Jansen is viewed as one of the greatest 21st century artists who successfully combined science and art. As a result of analyzing his works, it was found that, other than artistry, the works implied scientific, engineering, technological and mathematical logics and calculations inside and they gave full scientific effect to make the works look as if they were alive. Ecological philosophy was also deeply included in his work.
Based on the analysis on the three works, the research author proposed a fine art class model and interpreted them on how each of their elements were related with converged talent nurturing from a pedagogical perspective. Through this research, the author hopes for a more effective interaction between art and science in the new national curriculum amending the currently-implemented 2009 curriculum and a mid-to long-term evaluation that this research is a small step forward for creative talent nurturing.