Prospective Social Studies Teachers’ Views on a Creative Drama and Painting Activity with Turkish Coffee

Sehnaz Sungurtekin,Dilek Bilhan

doi:10.12973/eu-jer.9.1.187

Abstract

<p style="text-align:justify">The purpose of this research was to carry out an interdisciplinary art education activity with Turkish coffee and to evaluate the views of prospective teachers. For this aim, an integrated single case study design with a qualitative research approach was used. The study group consisted of twenty prospective social studies teachers. A questionnaire and semi-structured observation form were used as data collection tools. The data obtained were grouped under specific codes and categories and interpreted with a descriptive analysis approach. The visualised combination of the experiences, feelings and thoughts that the prospective teachers acquired through the natural colour content of coffee and the synthetic content of paints enabled the formation of a great variety of visual effects. The research findings show that prospective teachers gained aesthetic values through these visual effects. The integration of Turkish coffee with creative drama and painting also enabled the students to increase their awareness regarding Turkish coffee as an intangible cultural heritage in the social studies curriculum. Furthermore, it may ensure the dissemination of activities that involve the use of natural materials together with artificial materials for artistic purposes in all fields of teacher education.</p>

Highlights

Together with all the things that the artist sees, touches, tastes, feels, perceives and imagines in this existing universe, he/she reflects the social and cultural elements which shape our lives through an adventure of creation into an artwork
The codes which were determined for the researchers and prospective teachers to be used in observation and analysis are as follows: Researchers: Asking questions, feedback, instructions, motivation, sampling and re-expression, drawing/painting/cutting
The conclusion has been reached in this research study that prospective social science teachers possess information regarding the place and significance of Turkish coffee in society and Turkish poems, proverbs and songs about Turkish coffee that they have experienced both in their family lives as well as on their family visits

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Introduction

Together with all the things that the artist sees, touches, tastes, feels, perceives and imagines in this existing universe, he/she reflects the social and cultural elements which shape our lives through an adventure of creation into an artwork. The artist creates visual imagery by nurturing it from society, and this "is one of the universal ways that the human condition and social and cultural values of the past and present are expressed. It is one of the fundamental means by which humans communicate emotions, ideas, ideologies, etc." The idea in visual arts that “every visible unit placed on the plane of an image develops its own life" (Kara, 2011) may show the reflection of the artist’s experiences and the creative process within a dramatic imagination and understanding. Creative drama and painting stimulate all senses of the individual to establish meaningful relations with nature (Bilhan, Yilmaz, Daskin, & Sensoy, 2018), the self and others concerning the world

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