Abstract
This study considers how proper teaching materials can help students in arts and crafts classes to develop original ideas, and continuously create art based thereon, as a way to actively engage with people, things, and events: specifically, focusing on clarifying the requirements for this important type of educational support to this end. First, the author hypothesizes several requirements for such teaching materials based on a behavior analysis of a special-needs child during an arts and crafts class. Next, the author validates these requirements by analyzing her behavior in a subsequent class, which utilized new materials developed based on them. One of this child’s traits was an inability to independently engage with people, things, and events, attributable to her special-needs status. Optimizing the direction and orientation of educational support for such children is essential to mitigating the difficulties they face in their already challenging lives.
