케네디센터 CETA 프로그램의 통합예술교육 방법론에 관한 고찰

Abstract

This study examines the method of Arts Integration in the Changing Education Through the Arts (CETA) program of the Kennedy Center. Examining this method leads to reflection on some issues on the Arts Integrated Education (Tonghap yesul kyoyuk) in Korea. Munwha yesul kyoyuk (Cultural Arts Education) in Korea and the Arts Integrated Education pursued as part of munwha yesul kyoyuk have greatly been influenced by Western discourses. As for the Arts Integrated Education (Tonghap yesul kyoyuk), consciously or unconsciously, it has been influenced by the concept of Arts Integration pursued in CETA at the Kennedy Center. The Arts Integrated Education in Korea, which is at first probably is a mere translated version of Arts Integration at the Kennedy Center but is now considered as an indigenous concept by many people, has not reached a consensual definition. In order to overcome the confusion caused in the Arts Integrated Education in Korea, practitioners and theoreticians in munwha yesul kyoyuk (Cultural Arts Education) need to understand the following. First, by nature the Arts Integration of the Kennedy Center is for helping students to get knowledge of academic subjects easily, rather than for the arts for art's sake. Second, the method of the Kennedy Center does not demand the arts to deconstruct their ‘genre’. Rather, it encourages students to be accustomed to the characteristics of each genre. Third, as the Korean word tonghap, the Korean translation of ‘integration’, tends to be understood as ‘removing borders’, tonghap yesul kyoyuk also tends to mean to many people ‘a new style of art in which the arts lose their peculiar forms’. Understanding these will help Koreans as a start point of the Koreans' building the identity of their Arts Integrated Education.