여성 문해학습자의 집단 미술치유 프로그램 및 전시 경험에 관한 연구

Abstract

This study aims to explore the meaning and essence of the experience in which female literacy learners participated in group art healing program and exhibition. To this end, in-depth interviews were conducted with six female literacy learners at S Mother School who participated in the group art healing program and exhibited their work. An analysis was conducted based on the application of phenomenological research method. As a result, 40 converted semantic units, 14 themes, and seven central meanings were derived within three categories. First, the meaning of the experience of the group art healing program showed that they felt the burden of self-opening and drawing, but actively enjoy art activities away from psychological atrophy while feeling the joy of attempting new challenges in the midst of encouragement and expectations. Second, in the meaning of the experience of the exhibition, it could be seen that their works hung in an unfamiliar exhibition hall became the pride of their lives and that the value of their self was newly recognized. Third, the integrated meaning of group art healing program and exhibition experience, they came to have a positive view of themselves and the world, and they were able to restore their confidence and discover new possibilities for themselves. On the basis of these results, it confirms that group art healing program and exhibition could be meaningful interventions for the psychological support of female literacy learners, and suggested that they could be extended beyond the individual level of female literacy learners to a practical method of subjective interaction within the community.