The effect of integrated education on middle school students' interest in music classes and synesthetic expression by using popular music and color images

This study aims to design an integrated curriculum combining popular music and color imagery in secondary school education and to objectively measure students' interest in the class and their synesthetic changes. The goal is to provide theoretical and practical guidelines for middle school integrated education and apply these in actual teaching. For the quantitative research, a t-test was conducted with 50 middle school students, while qualitative research involved analyzing students' personal reflections and in-depth interviews with the researcher to gain a deeper understanding. The results indicate that the integrated curriculum plan is effective in increasing students' interest in the class and their synesthetic expression abilities. The study is valuable in that it derives practical models of integrated education using Korean popular music from various perspectives and provides materials for class improvement and suggestions for further discussion.