표현예술상담 수업에 대한 무용전공자의 경험 연구

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to explore the meaning of the experience process of students majoring in dance who participated in an expressive arts counseling class, which integrally applied various art therapy genres and psychological counseling principles. From 2014 to 2018, students who agreed to participate in the expressive arts counseling class at D Women's University in Seoul were selected as study participants and 170 students were studied over 5 years. The study method were structured and open questionnaires used to examine ‘expectation of class’, ‘experience of class’, and ‘class evaluation’depending on the time and purpose of the study in the curriculum of each year. The resulting data were analyzed through expert meetings. The study participants were reviewed in order to verify the validity of the results of the main and sub topics which were analyzed for the purpose of exploring the meaning of the class experience of students majoring in dance. For results analyzed by research problem, first, the main contents of the expectation of the study participants before the class were analyzed as ‘teaching method’, ‘teaching content’ and ‘application after the class’. Second, as a result of analyzing the meaning of the experience process of expressive arts counseling class of students majoring in dance, those who are majoring in dance recognized ‘self-healing experience’ and ‘relationship growth experience’ through the expressive arts counseling class. This confirmed that they explored the meaning of the class experience process from a multifaceted point of view by seeking ways to‘build artistic knowledge’ and ‘use art therapy’ as dance majors. Third, the analysis of the structured questionnaire conducted for the class evaluation after the expressive arts counseling class showed that the satisfaction of the research participants was high for all items in the questionnaire. The responses of the class evaluation open-ended questionnaire were analyzed as ‘class structure’, ‘instructor’, ‘classroom environment’ and ‘opinion on application in required courses’. The purpose of this study is to introduce the meaning of the experience process through concrete examples by conducting art therapy related classes as required courses for university students majoring in dance. As a result, this study raised the necessity of art therapy related education in university dance major curricula, which reveals the implication of this study. Therefore, the results of this study are expected to be useful information for examining the application methods of art therapy in university dance major curricula.