LCI 교육철학을 활용한 미적체험교육프로그램에 관한 연구

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to design a feasible hands-on aesthetic education program based on LCI educational philosophy. The importance of arts education is increasingly stressed in today's rapid-changing society, but there is some problems with the class participation of students and the professionalism of teachers in terms of school arts education. As cramming education is still prevailing in pursuit of college admission only, arts education isn't successful enough to teach the genuine worth of the arts, and that rather results in lowering the interest of students in the arts. The United States has taken an alternative approach to arts education by urging arts institutions and schools to join forces to provide quality school arts education. Lincoln Center Institute(hereinafter called LCI), which is one of leading arts education institutions, makes it possible to offer superb arts education based on the constructivist philosophy of education and in collaboration with experts in each genre of arts. Specifically, that seeks after education through the arts, not education for the arts, and offers arts education for everybody, not just for those who are engaged in the arts. A hands-on aesthetic education program, which is one of the LCI arts education programs, takes an alternative approach toward typical arts education. That pursues arts education for everybody, not just for artists, by helping learners to improve their aesthetic awareness and gain aesthetic experience, and that provides arts education in a genuine sense. As there is something wrong with school arts education, the LCI education program of the United States was reviewed in this study from a philosophical perspective to take a more effective and systematic approach to arts education. The unique characteristics and learning principles of the program were analyzed to design a feasible hands-on aesthetic education program geared toward elementary school students to suggest some of the right directions for the successful introduction and generalization of arts education in the educational system. This study is expected to raise awareness of the importance of arts education and to pave the way for more profound research on hands-on aesthetic education, and the educational authorities and experts should make concerted efforts to improve school arts education.