Abstract
The investigation of college students’ learning satisfaction for a new teaching model: Example of incorporating art therapy and spirituality into a career planning course. The subjects of this action research were 47 freshmen enrolled in the “Career Planning-Soft Power of Employability” course (10 males and 37 females). Two types of Likert scale questionnaire surveys were conducted before the end of the first semester. The Learning Satisfaction Questionnaire survey showed that the students’ response to the course was positive. Regarding the precursor activity designed for incorporating art therapy into the career planning course, the students’ average learning satisfaction was 4.45 with a standard deviation of 0.82, whereas their average learning satisfaction of overall curriculum planning was 4.34 with a standard deviation of 0.78. The results of open feedback forms showed that the incorporation of art therapy into the relevant activities of this course helped enhance the students’ concentration and interest in learning. In addition, the course was designed to enhance the effectiveness of teaching assessment. The results of the Teaching Assessment Questionnaire showed that the students’ average satisfaction of teaching in this course was 4.44 with a standard deviation of 0.78. Finally, this action research not only proposed specific suggestions for incorporating art therapy and spirituality into career planning course design and teaching method but also pointed out the direction for future action research on the incorporation of expressive art therapy into the relevant course activities of general education.
Highlights
Higher education has continually explored how to improve students' learning motivation and enhance their inner energy so that they can be clear about their career choice
The career planning course opened by the Department of Finance of National Taipei University of Business applied the information about many of the spiritual counseling or various expressive art therapy content in the researcher's teaching website http://www.dreamerpengh.com/ as a supplement to the curriculum of career planning theory; most follow the teaching model of reverse education, and the home reading and class discussion pattern
The action study infused art therapy and spirituality into the Career Planning Course of the freshman year students and the following are the results of this action study: (1) The “course feedback” shows that the learning satisfaction of infusing art therapy and spirituality into the career planning course implementation, the mean is 4.45and the deviation is 0.82; (2) the mean of total satisfaction planning is 4.34, and the deviation is 0.78
Summary
Higher education has continually explored how to improve students' learning motivation and enhance their inner energy so that they can be clear about their career choice. Career choice is to ascertain goals of life rather than finding a job. It is to plan your job as a vocation. Career planning course should pay attention to spiritual factors to enhance the soft power of employability and to improve intrinsic vitality of individuals to make their dreams come true. The college-level career planning courses need to think highly of spirituality to improve intrinsic vitality of individuals to achieve dreams. With the high unemployment rate of higher education nowadays, career education needs to arouse students’ interest in the study of their major subjects, and improve their specialty employability. In order to build a healthy and stable society, college students should study career planning; learn to rely on themselves; know how to apply the social resources; and solve the problems they encounter in career planning
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