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Department of Child Development, Faculty of Health Sciences, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

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Çetin, Z., 2021, ‘The effect of a modular art education programme on the personal-social development of preschool children’, South African Journal of Childhood Education 11(1), a941. https://doi.org/10.4102/sajce.v11i1.941

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The effect of a modular art education programme on the personal-social development of preschool children

Zeynep Çetin

Received: 05 Oct. 2020; Accepted: 12 May 2021; Published: 10 Aug. 2021

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Abstract

Background: It is important for children to be engaged in art activities to acquire desirable emotions and behaviours. Art education is thought to contribute to children’s development of personal and social skills, such as self-confidence and sharing.

Aim: This study aims to investigate the effect of art activities on 36–48-month-old children’s personal and social development and offers suggestions for teachers and parents about art activities.

Setting and Methods: The sample included 56 children from the Duzce University Pre-School (28 children in the experimental group and 28 children in the control group). Quantitative data collection techniques were used, and randomised pre-test post-test experimental design with control groups was adopted. The experimental group received 7 weeks of art education developed by the researcher as six 45 – 50 min sessions. The Brief Infant-Toddler Social and Emotional Assessment, which was adapted to Turkish was used as the data collection instrument. Variances were defined based on the data obtained. Content differences and frequency tables were formed and interpreted.

Results: Analysis of the data reveals a significant difference between the experimental and control groups’ pre-test and post-test scores.

Keywords: early childhood; education; modular; art; programme; personal-social development.

Introduction

The preschool term is an important vital term in which children learn sharing, cooperation, socialising and learning to work together whilst preparing the primary education and to keep the acquired information continuing lifelong (Gultekin 2011; Sen 2006).

It is envisaged that the results of studies on art-based learning in this term will provide valuable contributions to the area of personal or social development closely related to emotions. Educating the children through art is one of the most important educational paths. It is seen that the most important reflection of the innovations in the 21st century education understanding is the art of understanding and methods used in child development and education. A basic element of art education is socialisation and communication, and these skills are also an expression of mental processes (Ayaydin 2011; Sen 2006; Ucan 1996).

Erikson transforms the psycho-sexual and social development of Freud (1979) into psycho-social development and ego development that encompasses all life. According to these theories, the elation of the individual is very supportive of his personal development (Gultekin 2011; Sagirkaya 2013).

Considering the fact that the foundations of personal and social development lie in the preschool ages, which are the early years of life, educational programmes should incorporate these developmental areas as early as possible. It is important to support the child’s identity development in early childhood. Furthermore, in order to grow up children as being social, having self-confidence, creative, se-expressive creative, self-expressive and fair individuals who listen to and understand others, art activities are crucial educational practices.

Early childhood years is a term when children make discoveries, play with interesting objects and use their creativity freely, and artistic emotions and intuitions emerge. In this period, children do not have schemas, prejudices and rules in their mind, so the creative process yields the most productive results. Art helps children bring together what they know about science, social studies, health, mathematics and literature (Brewer 2001; Dickie 2005; Wright 2003).

Children need to develop their talent in artistic activities through drawings, pictures, sculptures, music, drama, dramatic play and dance. In this way, they have the chance to participate in situations related to other subjects or areas content to learn about more meaningful activities. The activities that are related to children’s daily lives provide learning opportunities and help children to investigate the relationships between the objects they learn about (Goldhawk 1998; Vural 2009). In a similar vein, there are some important points regarding the effects of art therapy group activities and why they are recommended for children. First of all, some children need to express themselves through non-verbal modes of expression. Art can be viewed as an instrument of self-expression for children and adults who have difficulties with verbal expression. In addition, it has been argued that art is a holistic and experiential activity that enables the use of imagination (Bell 2012; Lifschitz-Grant 2012; Lucas 2014; Prokofiev 1998; Wong 2007).

In art education, children find an environment where they can play and create, build their own stories and animate their dreams. It is an educational tool that saves children from being passive. It contributes to children’s use of imagination and communication skills and helps unleash disturbing emotions suppressed by the children. Art activities provide a natural environment that enables children to act freely. These activities also help to create an environment where children’s specific characteristics can be observed, and ideas and symbolic thinking can develop by encountering various situations and events (Gultekin 2011). Thus, children’s awareness about themselves and others increases, and they learn how to express themselves in a positive way. They also develop multidimensional thinking to evaluate events and relationships and learn about people as who they are through the art activities (Bozdogan 2003; Siverstone 1993). Moreover, Ulutas (2019) stated that preschool visual arts education can also contribute to social development.

In addition to reminding of the beauty of the divine, transcendent person in the artistic individual, he can manifest in spiritual pleasures such as serenity, peace and belonging in his spiritual world, in addition to the reflection, the beauty and the reflection of his behaviour in religious and social life (Aydeniz 2009; Furnham & Chamorro-Premuzic 2004; Terr 2000). As well as Damasio (1999) and Freud (1979) are one of the most important aspects of education to know, develop and control the psychological orientations, psychological attitudes, personal characteristics and social situations of children and adult individuals. In this context, a good education is an indispensable element in the case where the theoreticians define it as a model learning, and the indispensable element emerges from the perspective of contributing to the socialisation; in this context, it will be appropriate to target the personal social development with art education.

The social skills that are required in preschool years enable individuals having good communication skills. Such skills also lead life-long success by contributing individuals’ personal development. It is crucial to support the emergence of positive behaviours whilst taking into consideration early childhood needs. This study is based on the premise that children can acquire social skills by doing art activities.

Methodology

Research model

This study used a randomised pre-test post-test design with control groups. In the single-group pre-test–post-test model, a randomly selected group in the argument is applied. Both pre-test and post-test measurements are made. It is assumed that the difference between the measurements obtained results from the application between pre-test and post-test (Neuman 2006).

Participants

The sample included 36–48-month-old girls and boys attending the Duzce University Pre-school in the city of Duzce. The children studied in three different classes, and their families had low socio-economic backgrounds. To control the teacher effect, same teachers applied the programme in three classes independent of each other. The experimental group consists of 28 children (13 boys and 15 girls) and the control group consists of 28 children also (14 boys and 14 girls). In the experimental group, 13 children were 36–41 months old, and 15 were 42–48 months old. In the control group, 15 children were 36–41 months old, and the remaining 13 children were 42–48 months old. The 36–41 months old children had been attending the preschool for a few months, whilst the 42–48 months old children had been attending the preschool for at least a year. Permission was obtained from the participants through a consent form.

Data collection tools

The data collection tools which used in this study were chosen by taking into account the variables to be measured and included the Personal Information Form that includes about demographic information the ‘The Brief Infant-Toddler Social and Emotional Assessment (BITSEA)-Turkish Version’.

Child information form

The Child Information Form, which asks participants about their gender, educational experience and age, was devised by the researchers.

(K-1/3-SDD-TR) (19) The Brief Infant-Toddler Social and Emotional Assessment-Turkish version

Another scale which was used in the current research was developed by several researchers (Briggs-Gowan et al. 2004) to determine 1–4-year-old children’s levels of psychiatric symptoms and their psychosocial development (PD) problems. This questionnaire includes 42 questions, 31 of which were developed to assess children’s psychiatric conditions (PC) and the remaining 11 were prepared to assess PD. Each item is scored on a three-point scale (0: not true/rarely; 1: partially true/sometimes; and 2: highly true/frequently). Higher PC values indicate higher levels of psychiatric problems, whereas higher PD scores indicate better PD. This study used only the 11-item psychosocial section of the instrument. The BITSEA has high internal consistency (0.79 BITSEA-P, 0.65 BITSEAC) and inter-rater reliability (0.68 BITSEA-P, 0.61 BITSEA-C) (Briggs-Gowan et al. 2004). The K1/3-SDD PS scores correlated significantly with the Child Behaviour Rating Scale, introversion (p < 0.001), extroversion (p < 0.0001) and total scores (p < 0.0001). The Turkish version of the scale’s reliability-validity analysis was performed by Karabekiroglu et al. (2009). The scale’s test re-test reliability was found to be 0.85–0.87.

The modular art education programme

The experimental group received a 7-week art education course developed by the researcher. After the educational programme was prepared, revisions were made on the basis of five experts’ opinions, and then the art education was started. The programme was separated into three separate modules: painting, paper-collage and kneading. Each art education session lasted for 45 – 50 min. Table 1 shows the content of the weekly art education modules. Children participated in the art activities without hardship, as envisaged in the programme (see Figure 1).

FIGURE 1: Some sections from the kneading and paper or collage works of the modular art education programme applied to children.

TABLE 1: Weekly art education module.

Sample waste materials: Crayons, dry paint, felt-tip pens, foam board, graphene cardboard, handwork seals, Turkish art paper (EVA), paper, clay, mud, ceramics, modelling clay, wax, paste, paper, paste and wood dust.

The activities included shaping the dough prepared by the researcher in the kneading activity, process-based product development in the paper-collage activity and technique-based painting in the painting activity.

Children were shown some slides related to the activity to ensure short instructions about the implementation of each technique before the activity process. After it was ensured that the children had learnt the technique, free art work activities were started. After the art education was completed, a post-test was administered.

Analysis of data

The data collected from the control and experimental groups were analysed using SPSS 15. As the data were normally distributed, parametric tests, the independent samples t-test, the Kruskal–Wallis test and one-way analysis of variance were performed. Frequencies and percentages were also interpreted.

Findings

This section presents tables and interpretations related to the findings of this study.

Table 2 shows the experimental and control groups’ pre- and post-test scores. There was no significant difference between the experimental and control groups’ BITSEA pre-test scores; however, the two groups’ BITSEA post-test scores differed significantly.

TABLE 2: Mann–Whitney U comparisons of the experimental and control groups’ Brief Infant-Toddler Social and Emotional Assessment pre-test and post-test scores.

Table 3 shows the information about the 36–48-month-old experimental group’s personal and social development data. This group’s BITSEA pre- and post-test scores were examined. According to the results, there is a statistically significant difference between the participants’ pre-test and post-test scores. In fact, their post-test scores were significantly higher than pre-test scores.

TABLE 3: The t-test comparison of the experimental group’s Brief Infant-Toddler Social and Emotional Assessment pre- and post-test scores.

Table 4 shows that there is no significant difference in BITSEA pre- and post-test scores of the boys and girls in the experimental group (p > 0.05). The change in their BITSEA scores after the modular art education programme varied by gender.

TABLE 4: The experimental group’s Brief Infant-Toddler Social and Emotional Assessment pre- and post-test scores by gender.

Table 5 shows the experimental group’s pre- and post-test scores by age. The results show that there was a significant difference between 36–41-month-old children and 42–48-month-old children’s pre-test and post-test mean scores, with data in favour of the latter group. A closer look at the data reveals an increase in personal and social score means for both age groups after the art education.

TABLE 5: The experimental group’s Brief Infant-Toddler Social and Emotional Assessment pre- and post-test scores by age.

Discussion, conclusion and suggestions

It is crucial to support the social skills acquired in the preschool period with well-designed educational programmes. This study was based on the premise that modular art education affects children’s socio-emotional development.

The study shows that the modular education programme was administered to the experimental group, and a significant positive change was observed in personal and social competencies of children in each group.

The experimental group’s pre- and post-test scores indicate the performance of art education programme. In the control group, there was no significant difference between the pre- and post-test scores of children. The slight increase in the control group’s scores may be related to the fast development of the children considering their age.

Although there is a dearth of research on the relationship between artistic activities and social skills, it is thought that aesthetic sensitivity, creativity and art prevent the deterioration of societies’ social skills and regression (Sahin 2006; Tasdelen & Yazici 2012). According to Ture (2007), artistic learning is the creative activity process between the individual and the work (product model). Artistic learning occurs through planned, meaningful relationships created in pre-programmed aesthetic activities between the teacher and the learner. Children can only recognise and use objects in a social environment, which is the most significant factor creating a ground for their artistic development. In this respect, art education can significantly contribute to children’s social development.

Based on extensive research, Artut (2004) argued that children’s personal and social needs are closely related to the recognition of some artistic symbols, and the marks emerging in the child’s world through drawing and painting, unclear lines and figures are signs of children’s communication and social recognition. Bolat-Aydogan (2020) stated that even children’s art books can contribute to social development.

Yavuzer (1999) argued that children’s failure in artistic activities should be evaluated as a developmental problem rather than a skills-related problem. A child who cannot proceed to a higher level in artistic work probably cannot reach the psycho-social maturity for their age and will not be able to accomplish some activities performed by their peers.

Otgun (2009) and Armstrong (1994) found six areas of development that are influenced by artistic activities and works: emotional, physical, perceptual, social, aesthetic and creative. They pointed to personal preferences and social interaction to emphasise the effect of artistic activities on personal and social development. In addition, they highlighted the distinction between children’s art and adult art, as well as the importance of art in young children’s education as a unifying social activity.

Mynaříková (2012) administered art education to 11- and 12-year-old children and recorded positive effects on the children’s social and emotional development.

Studies of children’s drawings have found that children’s social, personal and psycho-social condition is indirectly reflected in their paintings (Artut 2002; Gultekin 2011; Gultekin & Yildiz 2009).

Considering children’s works as an artistic activity, art education can be associated with children’s personal and social development. In addition, research indicates that aesthetics and creativity, which are key components of art education, correlate with children’s social development (Barnes-Smith et al. 2015; Getzels & Jakson 1962).

The researches related the study shown that there was no significant difference between the experimental group’s pre- and post-test BITSEA scores by gender. However, some art education studies reported gender-related changes (Altinkopru 2003; Ari & Secer 2004; Can 2003; Persad & Soafer 2016).

In the study, the experimental group’s social development was assessed as BITSEA pre- and post-test scores, and the 42–48-month-old children were found to have significantly higher scores than the 36–41-month-old children. It can be argued that as their age increases, children’s socio-emotional skills improve as well. In many artistic activities, for example, in children’s drawings, age-related stages have been proposed, which supports this study’s age-related findings. An analysis of the literature reveals that children’s artistic activities significantly change depending on age (Cherney et al. 2006; Freilich & Shechtman 2010; Guven 2015; Oguz 2010). Researchers have studied children’s artistic development and free drawings and defined five developmental stages by age. The stages are (Ahi, Cingi & Kildan 2016; Bayram et al. 1999; Collado 1999) as follows:

  1. Scribble period: It is observed between the ages of 2 and 4 years.

  2. Pre-schema period: It is observed between the ages of 4 and 7 years.

  3. Schematic period: It is observed between the ages of 7 and 9 years (starting period of primary school).

  4. Realism period: It is observed between the ages of 9 and 12 years.

  5. Visible naturalism period: It is observed between the ages of 12 and 14 years.

Similarly, Freud (1979) and Bandura (1976) also stated that artistic studies may be more effective than logical mathematical activities on self-confidence and socialisation. Robertson (1999) reported that art education contributed to socialisation more effectively than social media and electronic networks, and that it contributed to real socialisation rather than virtual socialisation, both of which were made at the desk.

Studies of artistic works in early childhood reveal that active group work, especially in fine art, contributes to children’s social and personal development and improves cooperation and collaboration skills (Lyon et al. 2016; Uysal 2005; Yolcu 2004). Contributions to socialisation include work discipline, cooperation with others, being influenced, criticism, participation in activities, developing group harmony, sharing and cleaning up the workplace. Contributions to personality development include eliminating fights and anger, eliminating hate and angry emotions by clay kneading, developing attention, improving observation skills, patience, self-confidence, independent thinking and acting freely and without pressure (Dizdar-Terwiel 2010; Erbay 1997; Gencaydin 1993; Kouvou 2016; Unver 2016).

Torrance (2002) argues that music, drawing and art influence the development of children’s social life and creativity, especially at early ages. For this reason, in early childhood period artistic activities are recommended for children’s personal and social development.

Moreover, Yukay-Yuksel (2020) stated that arts education programmes are closely related to social development and similar cultural elements.

In the experimental group, stereotypical habits were observed, especially in the paper or collage works. In the painting and kneading works, the children acted more freely. This indicated that memorised knowledge is more dominant in paper collage works.

The findings indicated that the social development of the experimental group significantly differed from that of the control group after the art education. There was a significant difference in the experimental group’s pre- and post-test scores, whilst there was no significant difference in the control group’s pre- and post-test scores. Thus, it can be argued that one way to support children’s social development is to use artistic activities.

Depending on developmental and perception levels, it is critical that the programmes are centred on the senses, psycho-motor skills, aesthetics and comprehension. In this way the artistic activities focus on production rather than on their products and the process is emphasised.

The findings of this study suggest that use of the same shapes and templates should be avoided to prevent stereotypical art production, and that children should be encouraged to use different techniques in their works.

Teachers should be reminded that artistic activities should be process-oriented rather than product-oriented, which is more important for children’s personal and social development. In a paper collage activity, the children’s products should not be evaluated in terms of dimension, level, template or proportional metrics. The focus should be on their contribution to children’s social development and nature.

Artistic activities should be carried out in small groups. In the activities, children should be free; however, the activities should not be disorganised in terms of content. The activities should be organised in graded and regular modules.

Parents should be instructed that artistic activities are a component of children’s development, and therefore it is essential that children should be provided with rich opportunities and be free to play. Carrying out artistic activities with children’s peers would be more beneficial.

For researchers, it can be recommended that sub-branches of artistic activities should be evaluated in terms of children’s personal and social development. Children’s artistic activities can also be compared with other technological activities, and the effects of these activities on children’s personal and social development can be compared. In future studies, a survey design can be used with larger samples.

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