무용영재 육성을 위한 교육기관 모형연구

Abstract

The education for the dance-gifted still has many problems such as providing equal opportunity for education (in terms of region and class), connection to college education, widening of the variety of major field, managing the network of the graduates after their graduation, and effective social utilization of the graduates’ creativeness. In order to address these problems, in addition to the improvement of existing schools, more researches and schools, which are based on more effective and systematic methods, are required. The desirable characteristics of the model school for promoting new talents and training them to be good dancers and artistic leaders are as follows. First, There are no designed year (grade) level divide in the school. The school has very flexible policies for its admitting students and running curriculum. Second, the curriculum is based on the philosophy that aims to realize “foundation-unification-experience.” That is, the school’s curriculum tries to provide its students with basic common background, unified artistic experience (of various artistic forms), and more expert experience systematically. Third, the school has a system in which research, teaching, and performance are combined. Therefore, it keeps its own research group as the “think tank,” a group of trainers as the “teaching pool,” and a management team for supporting performances. Finally, the school builds a system that renders the next generation artists to society. In order to do so, the school leads its students to further activities in the leading colleges, universities, performance groups, or other artistic organizations. The education for the dance-gifted is finding itself at a turning point when the world is rapidly changing in every aspect. My study on the model school for the dance-gifted youth can serve to innovate the present dance education.