2023, Vol.13, No.3

Global Creative Leader: Education & Learning 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 1.5

pISSN : 2234-7534
https://journal.kci.go.kr/gcl

The purpose of this study was to identify the effects of Nature-Inspired Art Convergence class on self-directed learning and scientific problem-solving ability of middle school students. The study involved 36 middle school students and experimentation was conducted for eight weeks (16 sessions). The participants were randomly assigned to the experimental and control groups, comprising 18 students each. The students in the experimental group participated in the Nature-Inspired Art Convergence class, and those in the control group were assigned to a nature-inspired lecture class. For pre and post-test, PSI-B (Happner & Peterson, 1982) and SDLAT (Yang et al., 2018) were used, while the statistical analysis was conducted using the SPSS 21.0 Program. The study found that Nature-Inspired Art Convergence class was effective in improving the self-directed learning ability and the scientific problem-solving ability of middle school students. In this study, it was found that natural mimicry art fusion class was effective in improving self-directed learning ability and scientific problem solving ability of middle school students. Therefore, it was found that the interest in learning was increased by providing students with pleasure in inquiry activities.It is expected that the natural simulated convergence class, which improves self-directed learning and scientific problem solving ability, will have a positive effect on middle school students, so follow-up research is needed.

The purpose of this study is to explore the longitudinal relationship between adolescents’ happiness and influencing factors in order to find ways to improve happiness from a long-term perspective based on positive psychology. To this end, the survey data for the first to fourth years of the Korean Children and Youth Panel Survey 2018 (KCYPS 2018) were used, and the final analysis was conducted on a total of 2,160 first-year middle school panels. The trajectory of happiness was confirmed through the unconditional model analysis of the latent growth model, and through the condition model analysis of the latent growth model, it was verified whether grit, academic engagement, and positive and negative parenting attitudes were significantly predicted. As a result, first, adolescents’ happiness gradually decreased over the fourth year. Second, grit, academic engagement, and positive and negative parenting attitudes significantly predicted the initial value of adolescents’ happiness and significantly affected the decreasing rate of happiness. This study is significant in that it suggested the direction of longer-term educational intervention to promote happiness so that adolescents can realize happiness even in the process of studying by utilizing positive psychological academic variables.

The purpose of this study was to examine whether storytelling class was effective in improving creativity and social skills of university students. The subjects of this study were 56 university students who were enrolled in S University in Dongjak-gu, Seoul and took storytelling classes as liberal arts subjects. The subjects were 32 male students and 24 female students in the first to fourth grade. The experiment was conducted for 15 weeks from March 2, 2021 to June 11, and the experiment was conducted using a single-group pretest-post test design. For the pre- and post-tests to measure the creativity of university students, the‘Simplified Integrated Creativity Testfor university students’was used, and for measuring the social skills of college students, the ‘Social Skill Questionnaire among the ’University Liberal Arts Class and Teaching Professions Class Effect Evaluation Tool’was used. The collected data were statistically processed with paired t-test using SPSS 25.0 program.Therefore, it can be said that it is effective to utilize liberal arts such as storytelling class for creativity and social skill development of university students.