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Community-based Culturally Relevant Art Education for Korean-American Elementary Students: Impact and Policy Implications

Koh, Youngaah
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1563209394172921

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2019, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Arts Administration, Education and Policy.
This study explores the individual, sociocultural impacts of informal, community-based culturally relevant art education for Korean-American elementary students through a case study of an art class that the author taught at Korean Church of Columbus (KCC), a Korean protestant church in Columbus, Ohio, in Fall 2018. The study primarily focuses on investigating the potential impact of community-based culturally relevant art education in developing Korean-American elementary students’ cultural competence and critical consciousness. It also explores the long-term impact of such education for their successful acculturation. Moreover, to consider the impact of this study beyond the horizons of the classroom at a macro-level, the author identifies the study’s policy implications by situating the case study in the wider policy arena. In doing so, the author utilizes an analytical framework that brings together the discourses of culturally relevant education and social impact of the arts. The study finds that community-based culturally relevant art education helped Korean-American elementary students explore and increase the understanding of their unique hybrid self-identity as Korean, American, and Christian, which positively impacted their cultural competence. However, while students had a clear understanding of the social norm around diverse social identities and groups of people in society, they did not actively critique the social structure that validated it. Meanwhile, the study finds that the definition of “successful acculturation” for second-generation Korean-Americans aligned mostly with that of cultural competence. The author thus argues that culturally relevant art education, with adequate curriculum, pedagogy, and long-term engagement, is expected to contribute to students’ successful acculturation. The study also highlights the social dynamics that were created within and outside the ethnic Korean church where the culturally relevant art curriculum was delivered. In particular, it finds that the strong sense of community that was found within the church, including among students, created mostly bonding (exclusive) and less bridging (inclusive) social capital. Based on the tendency that simultaneous generation of bonding and bridging social capital induces social cohesion, the author argues that the study has broader implications for the U.S. social cohesion policy. Social cohesion is known to lead to increased civic engagement, community development, and ultimately social change. Essentially, she argues that the social capital generation aspect of immigrant-involved community-based organizations, such as KCC, can help increase social cohesion by impacting civic participation social cohesion policy in both public and civic sectors.
Joni Acuff (Advisor)
Christine Morris (Committee Member)
Dana Kletchka (Committee Member)
Margaret Wyszomirski (Committee Member)
428 p.
Art Education; Arts Management; Asian Studies; Ethnic Studies; Multicultural Education; Public Policy
culturally relevant pedagogy; social impact of the arts; community-based art education; social capital; social cohesion; hybrid identity; immigrant arts

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  • Koh, Y. (2019). Community-based Culturally Relevant Art Education for Korean-American Elementary Students: Impact and Policy Implications [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1563209394172921

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Koh, Youngaah. Community-based Culturally Relevant Art Education for Korean-American Elementary Students: Impact and Policy Implications. 2019. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1563209394172921.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Koh, Youngaah. "Community-based Culturally Relevant Art Education for Korean-American Elementary Students: Impact and Policy Implications." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1563209394172921

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