ABSTRACT

This research was designed to investigate how young children`s local community spirit, their musical ability and interest in Korean music were affected by cultural experimental activities. The activities explored cultural factors to be found in children`s local traditional songs(CLTS), and then required the children to recompose the CLTS, based on their personal experiences, and share them with each other. In this study, 27 five-year-old children from W childcare centers in W City were divided randomly into an experimental and a control group. The experimental group then took part in cultural experimental activities based on CLTS while the control group, even though they sang the same songs, took part in activities based on themes in the `Nuri curriculum`. The average and standard deviations of the children`s local community spirit, their musical ability, and interest in Korean music were calculated from the collected data, and ANCOVA was computed using the pre-test scores of each subject as the covariate. The results showed that taking part in cultural experimental activities based on CLTS positively affected young children`s local community spirit, their musical ability, and interest in Korean music.

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