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A Qualitative Study on the Meaning of Choir Experience of Students with Developmental Disabilities

  • Journal of Special Education: Theory and Practice
  • Abbr : JSPED
  • 2019, 20(2), pp.67-100
  • DOI : 10.19049/JSPED.2019.20.2.03
  • Publisher : Research Institute of the Korea Special Education
  • Research Area : Social Science > Education
  • Received : May 9, 2019
  • Accepted : June 7, 2019
  • Published : June 30, 2019

yoon jeong ha 1 Yong-Wook Kim 1

1대구대학교

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ABSTRACT

The choir experience may make possible to provide these reach experiences for effective interaction and social adapting skills. This study was initiated from the question of whether the choir experience, music education in further, could help understanding students with developmental disabilities in-depth and enhancing their social life in quality. For this ends, this study was employed the choir experience to students with developmental disabilities and observed at diverse angles in the process of the choir experience. For this purpose, this study was to find out how students with developmental disabilities adapt through choir experience in school which is their main life space, what they think about the situations that they encounter while they were preparing for the concert, and what meaning they give to their choir experience. The following categories were derived from the meaning of the choir experience by students with developmental disabilities. These six major categories were conclude from observation and analysis of social interaction between students and with teachers, and activity experience and adaptation. These categories were ‘Meeting with the new world, ‘Happiness of discovering hidden talents’, ‘Immersion to forget everything else’, ‘Splendor shining like jewels’, ‘A place of learning through communications with teachers’, and ‘World together with friends’. In summary of all the aforementioned results, by analysis of the meaning of the choir experience, students with developmental disabilities and their important motivations could be understood. Furthermore, their expression and concentration were improved through the choir experience, which naturally led to the improvement in class attitudes, and enhanced confidence.

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