Abstract
Purpose: Centered on the framework of global citizenship education (GCED), an after-school music program was developed for middle school students in Korea. The program aims to introduce multicultural topics to improve intercultural understanding and promote multicultural sensitivity for community relations development in response to rapid demographics changes in Korea. A total of 143 students have participated in the twenty-nine-week (29) pilot program. The program included orchestra and ensemble performances, learning ethnic songs and cultural backgrounds, and related educational activities. Research method: Methodological triangulation was used to evaluate the significance of the program. Program surveys, formative and summative evaluations, and interviews were used as the assessment instruments to measure the program outcome. Results: A music program based on the framework of GCED provided a good platform for gaining knowledge on teaching civic and multicultural education. The program displayed a measurable gain in students’ positive attitudes towards community relations.
Highlights
Korea has undergone a major transformation since the Korean War
A music program based on the framework of Global Citizenship Education (GCED) provided a good platform for gaining knowledge on teaching civic and multicultural education
The purpose of this study is to develop an afternoon school music program that undertakes to promote intercultural understanding centered on the framework of Global Citizenship
Summary
Korea has undergone a major transformation since the Korean War. In the past seventy years, the advancing industrialization from agriculture to manufacturing, economic development, urbanization, demographic transformation, and changes in family life constitute the major features of the transformation. While culture has some influence on people’s behaviors, culture does not explain how individuals manage conflict and how it influences the characteristics of individuals (Gunkel et al, 2016) These individual characteristics are based on how we are brought up and taught, where we come from, how we perceive the world around us, what peer and media messages we have internalized, how we perceive others, how we think others perceive us, and how we interact and communicate with others (Adler et al, 2013; DeVito, 2015). Intercultural misunderstandings and conflicts are often witnessed in Korea but in all parts of the world. This most complex phenomenon has been the subject of much research. Like the perspectives of each religion, has its approach to interpreting the world, thereby identifying who they are and their relationships with the surroundings
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