현대사회가 후기산업사회로 이동함에 따라 객관적이고 보편적인 지식만을 추구하던 모더니즘의 가치하락은 포스트 모던시대의 통합적 교육과정에 대한 새로운 관심을 불러왔다. 교육부에서는 후기 산업사회 즉, 정보화와 세계화로 특징지어지는 현대사회에서의 교육과정은 시대적 흐름에 맞추어 분리주의 경향에서 통합주의 경향으로 변화되도록 해야 한다고 보고 있으며, 학교에서 가르치는 지식의 사회?문화적 맥락이 중요하다고 강조하고 있다. 예술교육 역시 단편적이고 분리된 기술 습득보다는 통합적 활동으로 제공되는 것이 바람직하다는 것을 명시하고 있다(교육부, 1998).
This study examined the effects of painting expression activities connected with music on children on the basis of the philosophy of integrated arts education that has emerged in post-modernism education. Both music and art stimulate the sensitivity of children and improve their creative thinking. Above all, children like music and art activities and they help them express their mind naturally. Therefore, art activities connected with music offers a desirable model for integrated arts education. In this study, two pieces of music with different formats but of the same theme of “spring” which is familiar to children were played to children and the children were asked to draw paintings after listening to each pieces of music. From the differences of the paintings, the correlations between listening to music and artistic expression were examined. Most children accurately read the theme of the music even though they had not received any special teaching about music, and expressed their feelings on their paintings in many different modes of expressions and different color selections. As a result, this study found that art education connected with listening to music had direct, positive effects on children. The connected education of two different areas with different domains of perception helped children cultivate capacity for synesthetic perception and express a wider width of thoughts for the same subject, suggesting the possibility of educating them as creative persons required in this diversified modern society. Therefore, art education for children through interdisciplinary learning must be continued.