The society where we are living nowadays requires creative human who can make information and analyze it along with judging ability.
The cooking activity among various activities for enhancing problem-solving ability along with creativeness has a me...
The society where we are living nowadays requires creative human who can make information and analyze it along with judging ability.
The cooking activity among various activities for enhancing problem-solving ability along with creativeness has a merit in enabling provide many experiences with integrated education methods of various forms to infants.
Therefore, the cooking activity to infants is a very effective and interesting one integrated with all fields while accompanying pleasures of eating food. By having opportunities of participating in the cooking rather than aiming at delicious foods, infant could feel sense of accomplishment, and enjoy interesting time of eating self-made food.
Also, this cooking activity is not finished simply in the making process of foods, and is an effective learning in the integrated phases of educational courses such as shopping(society), calculating(mathematics), forecasting(science), reading cooking table(reading preparation), interaction between teacher-college(linguistic), proposition arrangement(health) and keeping thanks to foods(culture) etc.
The effect of cooking art activity to infant’s creativeness could be arranged as followings.
First, the integrated activity of cooking art was showed as making positive effect on infant’s creativeness fully. Through this result, the study found out a fact that abundant imagination, creativeness and problem-solving ability of infant can be nourished through various expanded activities such as fantastic cooking with creativeness by cooking activity, making cookbook, bakery game and cooker game etc.
Second, as much as the cooking art activity was repeated, the linguistic expression on the taste, type and feeling were progressed into detailed and true forms, and the expression frequency was also increased. Also, infant showed confidence on various symbol activities, and used many vocabularies along with designing a lot of methods.
Third, the infants were simply interested in the cooking just from doing it in the initial stage, and then they became to have more interests or made questions, and further making linkage with previous experiences and having opportunities of comparing and deducing the reason etc.
Fourth, infants can grow imagination and creative expression by doing creative cooking through cooking art activity or carrying out expansion of various activities. Also, the integrated approach through language, juvenile drama, action and fine art etc. were contributed to development of infant’s creativeness, and promoted their originality.
As shown above, consistent concerns and detailed practice plans on the integrated art activity are considered necessary, and also program development is needed in consideration of age of infants, regional conditions and socioeconomic level etc.