액티브 시니어를 위한 패션 중심 색채교육 프로그램 개발

Abstract

With the increase in human lifespans and the consequent emergence of an aging society, senior citizens aged 50 years or older, unlike the elderly in the past, are receiving attention as new leaders in modern society and the economy. These people prefer an experience-centered culture and art education to doing exercise or conducting dynamic activities. It seems that programs involving color that employ elements that can be useful in their daily lives, rather than general education to increase their knowledge, must be established. Accordingly, this study includes the goal of developing a program that combines elements and colors according to the interests of active seniors who are keenly interested in appearance and fashion. A color education program was designed by combining the analysis, design, development, implementation, evaluation (ADDIE) program—an instructional systems design model proposed by Seels and Richy (1944)—with the discipline-based art education (DBAE) approach created by Eisner. The fashion-centered color education program the was developed consisted of programs titled “Personal Color Education Program,” “Fashion Color Styling Education Program,” “Fashion Products Art Coloring Education Program,” and “Interior Color Coordination Education Program.” To valuate the program’s effects, two 45-minute sessions of color education per week were taught to 10 active seniors in their 50s and 60s over four weeks. The results demonstrated that satisfaction with the program was extremely high and that color was also found to be helpful in both work performance and daily life. The fashion-centered color education program was found to increase the understanding of self-expression, creativity, arousal of interest, improvement in expression, and color. The experimental treatment with the fashion-centered color education program had substantially changed how color was perceived before and after the treatment. In addition, ego-resilience, self-esteem, life satisfaction, psychological satisfaction, and self-efficacy improved among the study participants.