TITLE:
The Teaching Method of Creative Education
AUTHORS:
Yong Gil Lee
KEYWORDS:
Creative; Creative Education; Teaching Method; Educational Love; Educational Self; The Five-Stage Teaching; Idea; Discovery; Digging; Manifestation; Development
JOURNAL NAME:
Creative Education,
Vol.4 No.8A,
August
16,
2013
ABSTRACT: This paper is the study on the meaning of 5 stages of teaching in creative education. The five-stage teaching of creative education is one of the teaching methods set up as educational methodology for the education purpose of human creativity cultivation. Creativity is understood as universal and holistic aspect of human in creative education, and the spheres of creativity can be classified into physical-physiological sphere, social sphere, rational sphere, moral sphere, artistic sphere, and religious sphere in human life and the properties of value ability in each sphere are presented. Vividness in physical-physiological sphere, cooperation in social sphere, quest in rational sphere, virtue in moral sphere, beauty in artistic sphere, and belief in religious sphere are defined as the properties of value ability and presented the educational purpose. Such spheres of creativity distinguish universal human life and the cultivation of creativity are established as the educational purpose. Teaching method in creative education consists of the five stages of teaching as integrated teaching-studying to cultivate the properties of value ability in each sphere of creativity, which is the stage of idea-discovery-digging-manifestation-development to encourage learner’s freedom and willingness with teacher’s love and guide. Learner is the subject in the study course in the five-stage teaching and it is the teaching-studying theory to cultivate value ability through the learner’s thinking and experience, connecting the ideal type of thinking for value creation to the ideal type of teaching-studying. Freedom and willingness as the ideal type of thinking for value creation are explained in theoretical level and the actual measure for education is tried in the teaching theory by the five-stage teaching of idea-discovery-digging-manifestation-development as the ideal type of teaching-studying. In other words, creative education is to build the ideal type of thinking for value creation in advance and then present the corresponding teaching-studying. The five-stage of teaching in creative education is to build theoretical system of education to allow students to make creative value by themselves through the cultivation of human ability, changing logical order to time series in thinking and then applying it to education. The five-stage of teaching in creative education is the formulization of thinking for value education applied to studying. It is theoretical composition of the stages to develop thinking for value creation through the experiences of the activity spheres, placing the study course to the learners. The five-stage of teaching can present the educational course as creative ability cultivation as well as the teaching for realization of educational self.