행복감을 키우는 색채체험 조형 활동

Abstract

Having views on the phenomenon that happiness index of Korean children․teenagers has been ranked thelowest for several years, this study aims to consider a primary cause of the foregoing and suggest aformative activity based on the color experience as part of finding solutions to improve children’s sense ofhappiness at schools. In the course of the aforementioned, this study looked into the elements of Koreanchildren․teenagers’ happiness and the opposite factors on the basis of the contents of happiness index survey2013. This study also suggested following four major principles of “education for happiness” based on theresult of happiness-related survey targeting preliminary teachers in their 20s(students attending university ofeducation). 1) Removing students’ inner fear, 2) improving confidence and dignity, 3) enabling students torealize that one’s life is a process of creating new things consecutively as a free existence and 4) realizingand practicing that all classes are the process to strengthen pleasant and happy vitality. Furthermore, thisstudy proposed practical possibility of “education for happiness” through arts education by introducing someexamples of ‘color experience art activity that improves sense of happiness’ which has been practiced inclasses for years from such a point of view. As this study proven in the aforementioned survey, such anexample of class shows that the most important element of “education for happiness” is a classroomenvironment filled with love that banished fear, anxiety and negative thoughts. And this is directly connectedto free expressive activities given to students in arts class. Finally, erstwhile school fields should changegreatly to practice such “education for happiness”. If we truly want to practice good education that bothstudents and teachers become happy together, the educational circles of Korea must provide administrativesupport in an active way to enable students to reduce miscellaneous work and numerous events drasticallyand teachers and students to focus on classes faithfully.