藝術教育：配合幼兒發展的音樂綜合活動

藝術教育可以擴展幼兒的感官經驗，以視覺、聽覺、觸覺和身體動態讓他們去探索世界，透過多元化的藝術活動，如：音樂、舞蹈、戲劇和視覺藝術，能培養幼兒的美感和想象力。鑑於現在普遍的幼兒教育工作者，對藝術教育的重要性和認識較忽略，尤對於藝術綜合教育如何配合幼兒的發展缺乏知識，故筆者嘗試在本文討論幼兒藝術教育的音樂綜合活動與幼兒發展的關係，嘗試從舊有的觀念裏帶出新的角度與同工分享創意的藝術綜合活動範例，擴闊幼教同工在藝術教育上的知識領域，以音樂作為主線，設計一個音樂綜合活動，並配以其他藝術元素於教學上，透過實踐性的活動範例，讓幼教同工體驗藝術教育中音樂綜合的重要元素，以引起幼教工作者對藝術綜合活動的關注。
Art education can extend children’s sensory experiences. Children explore and perceive the world through their senses of sight, hearing and touch, and body actions. Through art, children’s aesthetics sensitivity and imagination can be cultivated through diversified arts activities such as art, music, dance, drama and visual arts. Due to the limited knowledge of kindergarten teachers in the integrated art education, this paper is going to discuss the relationship between the integrated music activities in art education and children’s development. The writer would like to share an example of the integrated art activity with teachers and broaden their knowledge on the area of art education by using music as a core, and trying to incorporate other art elements in the integrated music activity. With the try out activity as an example, the teachers experienced the important elements of the integrated music activity in art education which aroused their concern from the integrated art activities. Copyright © 2008 The Hong Kong Institute of Education.