시각장애학교 중등과정 국악교육 실태

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to further prosper and raise educational effects of Korean traditional music education for the secondary students at schools for the visually impaired. To achieve the purpose, music teachers from schools for the visually impaired have participated in the research to answer a questionnaire designed to show the state of Korean music education in their school. Analysis and consideration over answers on the questionnaire led to following results. First, participants were well aware of the value of teaching Korean traditional music as more than half of them agreed that Korean traditional music should be given with equal ratio in the curriculum as western music. They also had common idea that poor educational environments mainly cause from teachers' low proficiency and lack of educational tools for teaching Korean traditional music. Therefore, it seems urgent to enhance teachers' skill and to raise professionalism of the lesson through a solution like inviting professional Korean traditional musicians to school. Moreover, it is also highly recommended that schools have a separated classroom to teach and practice Korean traditional music and be prepared with a wide variety of traditional musical instruments considering the fact that schools mostly have very limited choices for the instruments except Janggu(Korean drum). Second, according to participants' answer about curriculum, they comparatively seemed to be satisfied with the quota that Korean traditional music has in the curriculum and they generally thought the purpose of Korean traditional music education should be helping students to better understand Korean traditional culture, to gain higher creativity and to develop their talent. For the ways to perform more effective tutoring, teachers wanted to improve their skill in advance of teaching Korean classical music to students by joining workshop or practical lesson, and they also said teaching and evaluation to students must be done individually by one-to-one tutoring system for the sake of practical skills. Third, Korean traditional music lesson helps students to gain more favorable impression about classical Korean music, to better understand overall music education, and also sometimes does remarkable role for letting students find their talent that may lead to professional level. Still, there were factors that rein in normalization of Korean traditional music education. Current Korean society excessively favors pop culture over it's cultural heritage, and policy supports for Korean traditional music education are generally less than expected. As for valuable suggestions, participants in the study asked for appropriate extra music lessons, after-school activities, and more professionalized personnel.