The Action Research of clay teaching curriculim design in promoting the development of children in tactile

Autor: Hsin-Yi Jiang, 蔣馨儀
Rok vydání: 2014
Druh dokumentu: 學位論文 ; thesis
Popis: 102
Sensory integration dysfunction problems were rarely mentioned in the past because people last generation often grew up playing. In the early childhood development, the tactual sensation is the most basic and influential system; at the age of three, the tactual interest moves from the body to hands, so that the children are excited by colorful vision and try to understand the surrounding people, things and environment by touching with hands. Among all materials, clay is easy to shape and may better stimulate the body''s sensory development due to the unique plasticity touch. The purpose of the study is to design a creative thinking teaching model for preschool children aged four to six with children clay courses and to facilitate the development of children''s tactual sensation through discussion and analysis after teaching activities. The study carried out two teaching activities for an action research. Before that, it discussed literature of theories of sensory integration, children cognition development, children painting development and creative thinking education and compiled cognition and children painting development theories suggested by Piaget, Lowenfeld and Eisner, according to which it designed a set of clay teaching model and performed teaching activities based on the creative thinking. The first teaching activity, research tools and data collecting methods were reviewed and inspected according to the principles of creativity-oriented teaching, for the amendment reference for the second teaching activity. Tests were done with a "scale of sensory integration capabilities" before and after implementing the second teaching activity; after the teaching activity is over, the measurement is used as the main basis for the discussion about tactile and other sensory development, supplemented by teachers'' journals, lesson learning sheets, recordings, videos, students'' works, etc. After the teaching activities of the study, the test result and analysis showed that: 80% of the students progressed in the result of sensory action sequence on both sides, while 13% regressed and 7% remained the same; 67% of the students progressed in the sensory adaptation result, while 33% regressed and 0% remained the same; and 46% of the students progressed in the sensory searching result, while 47% regressed and 7% remained the same. Based on the said data and the support of other research tools, the researchers discovered that more than 50% of the data confirmed that the clay material may facilitate the development of children’s'' tactual sensation after four weeks of the course.
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