The effect of visual art education on nine to ten year old children's appreciation criteria

Abstract

Education to gain the ability to evaluate works of art will strengthen the child's ability to distinguish the beautiful from the ugly and will lead to the proliferation of individuals with a developed aesthetic consciousness in society. This is an important quality that cannot be sacrificed in the construction of the desired society in the future. In this study, it was aimed to investigate the effects of art education given in primary school Visual Arts course on children's appreciation criteria. For this purpose, art education was applied in the visual arts course of fourth grade students consisting of nineteen female and eighteen male students within the programme created for five weeks and its effects were tried to be determined by the observation method within the scope of qualitative research methods. Firstly, an interview was conducted in order to learn the students' taste criteria, and in this direction, the topics selected for the five-week education were determined by examining the fourth-grade achievements of the Visual Arts Programme. Then, lesson plan and slides related to the subject were prepared. Students were observed during the applications and finally a final interview was conducted to examine the changes in tastes and all the data obtained were analysed. In line with the findings obtained, it was revealed that the students rapidly adopted educational art criticism as a result of the art education related to the programmes given to the fourth-grade primary school students.