연극 공동창작 활동이 중학생의 공동체 역량 함양에 미치는 영향 연구 : 협력종합예술활동 사례를 중심으로

Abstract

This study stemmed from the researcher’s inquiry while working as a teaching artist for Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education’s ‘Cooperative Integrated Arts Activities(CIAA)’ initiative, which provides culture and arts education programs to strengthen student’s core competencies. As working for the ini- tiative for the past 3 years, the researcher became curious: “Is Cooperative Integrated Arts Activities' the- atre-making really helping students collaborate each other?" The inquiry led to the purpose of this study: to explore the effects and investigate the factors of collaborative creation of theatre in CIAA on com- munity competency of middle school students. To this end, the researcher devised and implemented 22 sessions of ‘collaborative creation of theatre' program for 24 first graders of S middle school. The data collected from the implementation was analyzed and described using qualitative case study methods. The results of this study can be summarized as follows: First, as a result of the implementing the collabo- rative creation of theatre, there were significant changes of the students across knowledge, skills, values and attitudes in terms of the ‘Role performance ability’ and the ‘Conflict and problem solving ability’ which are sub-factors of community competency. Second, four major factors were found such as, “a structure that ev- eryone has to participate in”, “free and receptive atmosphere”, “performance as a clear goal”, and “process of reflection”. These factors proved to be crucial for the participants’ improved community competency. The findings of this study are as follows: First, the ‘collaborative creation of theatre’ provided ‘a space for genuine experience’ where the participants take part in and deal with their conflicts and problems as a community, whereas they remained passive and reluctant at the beginning. Second, through the ‘collaborative creation of theatre’, the participants were able to expand their self-consciousness from ‘I’ to ‘we the member of community’, which affected their attitudes and perceptions towards their lives. This study is meaningful in that it revealed how collaborative creation of theatre affects middle school students' community competency through the case of CIAA initiative. It is my hope that more various ap- proaches of theatre creation program to be developed in the field to foster students’ core competencies.