커뮤낼리티(communality) 예술통합교육의 사례 및 특징

The Case of Arts Integration Program for Communality and Its Characteristics

This article examines “communality,” the feeling of social identity based on a certain geographic area, in terms of education as well as the characteristics of the arts integration program for communality. Pursuing its goal, the article examines the arts integration program for communality run from 2015 to 2022 based on Kyeongsan City area. This arts integration program understands and attempts to form communality and personality through K(Knowing), D(Doing), and B(Being). Through the KDB, the students in the program formed their senses of “Eco” in themselves by knowing the geographical area where they live and doing artistic activities in the area where they live. Finally the effects of this program lead the students to making harmony with the environment in which they exist. According to the research, the arts integration program shows its characteristics as follows. First, the K(knowing) stage includes the information about the history, geography, and natural environment of the area. Second, the D(Doing) stage let the students explore the characteristics of the history and environment of the area. At the same time, the students express what they learned and felt through their dance. Third, the B(Being) stage includes the students’ contemplation and planning for the self. The members of the arts integration program based on the geographical area explore time and space in which they exist. Such an exploration makes new connections among individuals and environment. These new connections signify a new imagination that lets one rediscover himself or herself on a new horizon of life. The arts integration program for communality developed in Kyeongsan City area can lead a new trend of Cultural Arts Education in which geography, space, and time are combined to address the social problems in Korea. At the same time, it can revitalize various cultural resources in such a combination. Therefore, such a “communality-arts integration program” should be considered as a very important affair of the cultural arts education in Korea.