Art Instructor's Attitude towards the Art Curriculum for Undergraduate Degree in Tehran Universities.

Abstract

The present research aims to investigate lecturer’s feedback over the art curriculum in Tehran, the capital of Iran, and introduce the applicability of Discipline-Based Art Education (DBAE), as a new way of teaching art, and its implication of art instruction in studio-based fields of study for undergraduate degree. This study is carried out based on a survey in which fifty art lecturers contributed. The standard questionnaires included 22 questions were used to assess the objectives of the study. The findings revealed that: (a) of the three components of DBAE, art history, art criticism, and aesthetics were not dominated in seven art university studio based classes according to the lecturers’ ideas; (b) all participants were dissatisfied with the current art curriculum; (c) the majority of the lecturers were enthusiastic about further training which would enable them to teach the four components of DBAE. In the conclusion, a novel curriculum might be welcome based on the participants’ responses, and also a discipline-based art education curriculum may be presented as superior method. Key words: University degree, curriculum, studio-art class, discipline-based art education