The Use of AI -Generated Stories Combined with the Creative Art Activity Sets to Enhance the Self-Awareness of Young Children through Parental Collaboration

Abstract

This study aimed to compare the self-awareness of pre-school children before and after using AI -generated stories combined with the creative art activity sets through parental collaboration. The target group consisted of 10 young children, including 3 - 4 year old male and female pupils studying in kindergarten 1 during the second semester of the 2024 Academic Year at a public demonstration school in Bangkok. The instruments used in this study were: 1) AI-generated stories combined with creative art activity sets created using parental collaboration, and 2) a self-awareness assessment form for young children, divided into three aspects as follows: 1. identifying and talking about aspects of personal identity 2. developing a positive self-concept, and 3. recognizing that they are part of a socio-cultural group, indicating 12 items. Data were analyzed using mean, standard deviation, and content analysis. The results of the study found that the self-awareness score of young children after using AI -generated stories combined with the creative art activity sets through parental collaboration was higher post-test than pre-test, both overall and in each aspect. Before the experiment, the mean score and standard deviation were 16.30 and 0.94, respectively, as opposed to 32.10 and 1.10, respectively after the using AI stories combined with the creative art activity sets. The aspects with the highest averages cores following the experiment were: self-awareness, developing a positive self-concept, followed by the recognizing that they are part of a socio-cultural group, and identifying and talking about aspects of personal identity, respectively.