예술가의 창의성 유형에 기초한 융합형 예술영재 교육기관 설립에 관한 고찰

Abstract

This study aims to classify the features of artists into specific types, thereby exploring screening system and educational curriculum for cultivation of creative convergent talent. Since the enactment of the Enforcement Decree of the Gifted Education Promotion Act in 2000, gifted education has gained considerable momentum in Korea. In response to such educational boom, some voice the necessity of applying gifted education to the top 1% of students at primary and middle schools. Likewise, attention grows over gifted education with demands for excellence in education, being accompanied by controversy over screening system and educational curriculum. In the belief that such trend illustrates part of excellence in education, this study construes it as a type of proposal for nurturing talent at the forefront of the 21st century. Accordingly, the study presents concrete proposals through review of screening method and curriculum for cultivation of creative convergent talent, thereby identifying the distinction of convergent talent. First, it examines creative artist types under the three categories. Second, it looks at specific cases of gifted education as a system for fostering creative manpower, thereby pondering over the distinction and screening method hereunder. Finally,it produces suggestions and implications for such screening system and educational curriculum for nurturing creative convergent talent. Based on the aforesaid discussion, it clarifies that studies on educational curriculum and program for cultivation of creative talent in tune with the society in the 21st century are closely connected with how to nurture convergent talent.