Role of art programs in young childrens social-emotional learning
Qiao S. Tapalova O. Nasyrova L. Tarasova I. Kozlovskaya D.
September 2021Elsevier Ltd
Thinking Skills and Creativity
2021#41
The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between arts participation and social-emotional development of 300 preschool children (4 to 5 years) in Wuhan (China). Children received improvisation classes, sessions where they were asked to listen to and discuss music, and typical art lessons. Children were administered the Emotional Matching Test and the Ages & Stages Questionnaires: Social-Emotional. This study demonstrates that arts education affects preschool-age childrens knowledge of emotions and social-emotional competence. The results showed a direct strong correlation between emotional knowledge and arts education with the correlation coefficient ranging from 0.718 to 0.8923. The findings of this study may be useful in designing programs for kindergartens to prevent psychosocial development delays and behavioural problems in children that are related to insufficient knowledge of emotions. Future research will benefit from the comparative study of social and emotional learning (SEL) programs, extracurricular social-emotional skills training, and SEL integrated into lessons.
Arts education , Emotional knowledge , Pre-schoolers , Social education , Social-emotional development
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Department of Design, Zhoukou Normal University, ZhouKou, HeNan, China
Department of General and Applied Psychology, Abay Kazakh National Pedagogical University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Department of General and National History, Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University, Elabuga, Russian Federation
Department of History and Philosophy, Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation
Department of Social Work, Russian State Social University, Moscow, Russian Federation
Department of Design
Department of General and Applied Psychology
Department of General and National History
Department of History and Philosophy
Department of Social Work
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