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A Study on the Effect of a Cooperative Art Program for the Improvement of the Peer Problem-Solving Ability of Elementary School Lower grades
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Abstract
This study aims to determine whether or not using a cooperative art program has any significant effect onenhancing the peer problem-solving abilities, prosocial behaviors, and emotional abilities of elementaryschool lower grades. The program was carried out during 17 sessions involving 97 children in four2ndgrade classes in N elementary School in S City. The tools utilized were the WALLY Problem SolvingTest(1997), the Prosocial Behavior Questionnaire(PBQ, 1981), Moon(1996b)’s emotional intelligence ratingscale for elementary lower grades. and Kim(1998)’s “Young children’s emotional intelligence rating scale forteachers” rating scale. The effect of the cooperative art program was analyzed by the Analysis ofCovariance(ANCOVA). The results showed that the children demonstrated enhanced problem-solvingabilities at a level between the mutual thinking reflective of one’s own desires and common-goal orientedthinking. This demonstrates that the program is suitable for approaching hypothetical peer problemsituations from a PBL point of view, before an actual peer problem occurs in the elementary schoolsetting. To conclude, the program is useful for enhancing peer problem-solving abilities as it can developthe prosocial behaviors and the emotional abilities of elementary school’s lower grades. This study willprovide the basis needed for developing educational programs for current elementary school lower grades.