노인을 위한 스토리텔링 기반 예술통합교육의 인문학적 탐색

Abstract

This article examines the values of the humanistic approach to the Arts Integration program for the elderly based on Storytelling. In this age that acknowledges the life span of 100 years, ‘becoming elderly successfully’ and ‘being elderly creatively’ are key words for addressing many problems of the quality of life. ‘Becoming elderly successfully’ can be realized through physical, cognitive and emotional health as well as active social involvement. ‘Being elderly creatively’ can be achieved through practicing self-initiative and self-organization. The characteristics of the Arts Integration based Storytelling are ‘keeping existing’ and ‘peculiarity’ that make an individual more confident. At the same time, ‘meaningfulness’ and ‘communicativeness’ that can make one reorganize his or her life are important qualities in the Arts Integration based on Storytelling. The Arts Integration program for the elderly based on Storytelling pursues the artistic lives in which various artistic experiences meet lives with personal stories. In this process, the artistic experiences lead lives to changes and make individuals more able to redesign their lives. Such design of the lives for the elderly has significances as follows. First, it makes one’s existence being present through the narrative of life. Second, it makes one achieve life with self-initiative. Third, it makes one find his or her own ways to express peculiarity. Fourth, it realizes creative aging in which life and arts are combined. The Arts Integration program for the elderly based on Storytelling can offer a new solution for the physical, psychological, sociological problems of the elderly. With its new point of view and various artistic experiences for the problems of the elderly, the Arts Integration program for the elderly based on Storytelling can make the elderly reborn as existences with newly developed aesthetic sensibility.