An Analysis of Research Trends in Children's Art Education: Focusing on Children's Art Education Outside of School

This study examines the trend of research related to 'out-of-school children's art education' in art education and discusses the future tasks of research on children's art education. A total of 50 papers were selected and analyzed, focusing on the papers published in the past 10 years from 2015 to 2024, which are KCI-list ed domestic art education academic societies. As a result of the analysis, first, it is published 4-5 times per year, but it is very low. Second, as for researchers, the proportion of university professors and uni versity instructors was the highest. Third, the research subjects are overwhelmingly elementary school students. Fourth, qualitative research was being actively conducted on research methods. Fifth, digital me dia and expression media, art galleries's children's art education studies were the most common research theme. The analysis results and discussions based on the results of this study provide important data for the development and direction of research on art education for children outside of school in the future.