Abstract
This study aims to determine the art need levels of music teacher candidates with regards to sex and grade level variables. The data of the research were obtained from 102 music teacher candidates studying in the Department of Music Education at Erzincan Binali Yildirim University, Faculty of Education. Descriptive screening method was used in this study. The data was gathered through a 'Scale of Need for Art Education' developed by Taskesen (2017). The data were analysed by using SPSS Statistics 22 Programme and shown in tables. The data findings given in the tables were commented fastidiously. As a result of the study, no significant difference was found between the scores of need for art education with regards to students' grade levels. As well, there was no significant difference between the scores of the need for art education with regards to sex despite the fact that the number of female students was higher than the number of male students.
Highlights
The concept of art is a die-hard matter of fact in a music educator's life and makes the educator feel ill at ease when he/she feels the void of it
According to the results of the research, it was observed that there was no significant difference between the art need scores of the candidates with regards to their grade levels
Despite the fact that there was no significant difference between the scores, it was found that the art need scores of the 3rd grade students were higher than the other grades while the scores of the 4th grades were the lowest of all
Summary
The concept of art is a die-hard matter of fact in a music educator's life and makes the educator feel ill at ease when he/she feels the void of it. According to Uçan (2007: 16) art education is a process that either causes people to gain certain artistic behaviours by means of their own lives, or to change, transform, develop and enhance these artistic behaviours of people through their lives purposefully and methodically. Art education is an essential educational phenomenon which is believed to be a part of the whole education process beginning from the preschool to undergraduate education. The processes of art education are educational structures connected with each other at the point that they are educational tools and educational subjects. The lack of art education that may occur at any stage of the development process may adversely affect the psychological and physical development of the individual (Uluçay, 2012: 30)
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