창의적 실과 교육프로그램 적용이 아동의 창의성 신장과 학업성취도에 미치는 효과
The Effects of the Application of a Creative Practical Arts Education Program on Children’s Creativity and Academic Achievement
The present study aimed at examining the effects of the application of a creative practical arts education program on children's academic achievement and creativity. The research result can be interpreted in two ways. First, high creativity does not necessarily result in high academic achievement. That is, to enhance academic achievement, children need concentrative and repetitive learning in addition to creative thinking power. Second, the traditional examination questions are mainly to assess students' memory. Even if classes are developed in the direction of improving children's creativity, examination questions advantageous to students who are good at memory work will hinder the development of creativity. Accordingly, schools need to set examination questions with the intention of enhancing students' creativity. Based no the result, this study makes the following suggestions.First, teachers must be given opportunities of field training for developing students' creativity. Second, there must be experimental research on the effects of creative problem-solving class models related to other units in practical arts to improve the effects of learning by applying the models.Third, this study proposed a creative problem-solving class model as a class model for developing children's creativity through practical arts education. However, it is necessary to develop a class model that reflects the characteristics of practical arts education so that the model can develop children's advanced thinking power including basic functional skills, senses of future direction and creative ability, which are suggested as the objectives of practical arts education.
