창의, 인성 교육용 원예활동 프로그램이 아동의 창의적 인성에 미치는 효과

The Effects of Horticultural Activities Program Applied Creativity and Personality Class on Children’s Creative Personality

This study was conducted to investigate the effects and influences of horticultural activities program which has the educational element of creativity and personality applied to the primary school aged children. To confirm the effects of the Horticultural Activities Program (HAP), 31 children aged 8-10 years from J child community center in S city was set to test. 16 children were chosen for the experimental group, and 15 children who were not participated for the HAP were selected as the control group. This study was carried out for 40 minutes each time, once a week, from May ~ July/2016. To measure the creativity of children with horticultural activities program, Kim’s (2004) creative personality test was used. Before proceeding the HAP, homogeneity test was carried out for creative personality to two different groups and it was confirmed that they are in homogeneity as there was no significant difference statistically. It could be found that the children in experimental group who participated HAP has improvement of creative personality in average with 9 times of program and it is considered that there is positive effect to enhance the creative personality of child. There was significant difference statistically when creative personality was divided into 8 sub factors; patience/obsession, self conviction, humor, curiosity, imagination, openness, adventure and independence. All of 8 factors were improved in average. On the other hands, the control group had no significant difference statistically for all factors except humor. Therefore, Horticultural Activities Program which has the educational element of creativity and personality applied has the positive effects to the children’s patience/obsession, self conviction, humor, curiosity, imagination, openness, adventure and independence.