Ontological Relationship between Culture and Art Taste Communities

The purpose of this study is to examine the cultural and arts education experiences of older women from a transformative learning perspective. This study used a narrative method to examine the experiences of elderly women active in a folk song-dance taste community through transformative learning. Participants were five elderly women aged 65 to 80 who danced folk songs in a living art space in A city. This study collected data from interviews, participant observation, and photovoice. The data was analyzed using an inductive method that generated story themes by transcribing the data into text, analyzing the content through coding, and classifying by topic. The results of the story of an elderly woman in a community of folk dance tastes consisted of space, folk song dance and costumes, and relationships with humans. First, it is about establishing a relationship with space. I was able to form a relationship with a meaningful space that I want to come to when I open my eyes because folk song dance is attractive as a moving activity in the living art space. Second, it establishes a relationship between folk dance and costumes. Elderly women feel positivity, pride, and fulfillment in their lives while listening to folk music and dancing to folk songs. In terms of establishing a relationship with costumes, people pay attention to clothes on days when they dance folk songs and rediscover meaning in their daily lives through costumes. Third, it is about establishing relationships between myself and others. Older women are experiencing the process of immersing their tastes in the folk song and dance taste community, discovering new meaning in their lives, and finding happiness in the present time.