Today, the notion of Multiple Cultures is no longer a foreign concept in Korean society with an unprecedented increase in population movement across the national borders that is facilitated by globalization. It is not uncommon to meet people from othe...
Today, the notion of Multiple Cultures is no longer a foreign concept in Korean society with an unprecedented increase in population movement across the national borders that is facilitated by globalization. It is not uncommon to meet people from other cultures on buses or metros, and it has become easier than ever before to find restaurants providing dishes from various countries on the streets. Multi-cultural festivals and events are held throughout the year in cities and countrysides, and in some areas, multi-cultural population is even greater than the number of Koreans. As such, the education for the second generation of multi-cultural families has become crucial in the education field as the country is rapidly becoming a multi-cultural society. The number of second-generation multi-cultural families in Korea is showing a steady growth through either immigration or given birth in Korea. As they grow up, they may face diverse problems and conflicts from the differences between their non-multi-cultural peers, which can be intensified in adolescence. In order to resolve these problems and conflicts, it is necessary for them to integrate and adapt to the Korean society in a stable manner. Thus, understanding Korea must be preceded.
In order to understand a country, it is very important to know its authentic culture, and music is one of the core components. Experiencing and appreciating a country's music can help understanding the country’s history, emotion and culture, hence it is a good way for the multi-cultural youth to learn Korea.
On the other hand, the K-Pop is increasing its reputation world-wide in this modern society where various digital media floods along the development of the Internet. The world-wide popularity of K-Pop is often heard from news media and its melody is also heard from every corner of the country. Whereas Korean traditional music is underestimated by young people as they believe that it is only enjoyed by older generations, and together with such prejudice, it is further unfamiliar to the multi-cultural youth.
Therefore, this study confirms the improvement of awareness of multi-cultural youth on Korean traditional music through teaching and learning based on Problem Based Learning(PBL) approach, which develops Korean traditional music programs in schools using radio broadcast media, and aims to make it possible to use it in practice.
This study was conducted based on the teaching and learning plan that designed to include 12 sessions for 44 high school students in Korea Polytechnic Dasom High School (Jecheon, Chungbuk), which is a high school exclusively for multi-cultural youth. From the moment that the students are given the mission of creating Korean traditional music radio program, they actively and autonomously participated in the learning through out the whole procedure of production including teaming up, dividing roles, developing program contents, script writing, selecting music, sound control, and finally broadcasting the program. Therefore, in the course of the 12 sessions, the each team cooperated and resulted in successfully developing diverse and creative programs. The improvements in the awareness on Korean traditional music was measured through pre- and post-test surveys, and the results of the statistical analysis showed that there was significant changes in five variables which include 'interest', 'familiarity', 'awareness', 'changes from negative perception', and 'perception improvement'.
Based on these results, it is hoped that the proposed teaching and learning methods will be modified and adapted to be used in practice with different schools and various students.