A Study on Young Children’s Music Activity Based on Five Children’s Commandments

ABSTRACT

Children’s Five Commandments include essential tasks for young children’s development on the basis of “basic life habits” crucial to young children’s education and carry comprehensive significance in preventing ill-effects of materialism in modern society. As such, this research utilized music as a pedagogical and methodological medium to introduce the Five Commandments to young children, for music is what humans inevitably experience and enrich their lives through the experience. Five virtues of the Commandments were broken down to subcategories of “Finding Musical Elements,” “Enjoying Musical Expression,” and “Appreciating Music” in reference to the 7th Kindergarten Education Curriculum. The contents of the subcategories were divided into Level I, Level II, and Common Level, and examples of applications for exercise were also provided. In oder to verify the efficacy of the developed activity, “post/pre experimental designs” were carried out by making use of measures formulated and validated by the researcher. SAS 9.1 was used for collected data. As a result, statistically meaningful outcome was found in that positive changes were made in both practices and attitudes in all five areas.