Bae, J: An Art Education and Cultural Learning Program For K

The purpose of this study is to discover the stakeholders‘ essential nature, meaning, and value of the intensive one month Florida based art education and cultural learning program for the South Korean elementary school teachers. Based on a phenomenological study, data sources included in- depth interviews with six Korean teachers, the program coordinator, the program administrator, the Korean program coordinator at the teacher participants‘ home university, and two program assistants from a university in north Florida, intensive observations of whole events and activities, and review of the teacher participants‘ research journal notebooks, materials, and documents. Findings indicate that the program can encourage the teacher participants and other stakeholders to understand people in different cultures, provide participants who are interested in studying abroad with a beginning experience, and begin, through firsthand experience, to adjust their fixed or stereotypical views of cultures other than their own through the construction of new cultural perspectives.