다문화 시대, 미술교육의 사회적 역할과 과제

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to clarify the social role and tasks of art education by reconsidering the meaning and impact of art education in the elementary schools with respect to the socio-cultural change in the multicultural society. To this end, the researcher has briefly reconsidered the background, development, and features of multicultural education in Korea and Japan, has reviewed the meaning and characteristics of elementary art education, and has delved into children's art activities as a medium of communication. The researcher has also presented cases of art activities appropriate for the multicultural society in terms of elementary art education. The process of diverse art activities which bring children to self initiative imagination and creativity, has the features of sympathy which bridges each other's minds. These features are not solely confined within the boundary of increasing the expressive power of individuals. As the result, this study indicates that the social role of art education is to communicate with other people by visual image, and is ultimately to implement the cooperative and harmonious activities of the life toward the mutual acceptance of difference and coordination for win-win. The art education can contribute to the creation for the better future of the multicultural society by focusing the directions and goal toward the understanding, acceptance, communication, and convergence of the differences. In this sense, it can be said that the tasks of art education is to explore the concrete solutions to overcome various problems in the process of doing art education in the elementary schools.