Art Teachers Research Articles

Fostering Pre-Service Teachers’ Professional Abilities in Art Education through Reflective Teaching Practices

Reflective teaching practices are essential in art education, serving as a cornerstone that encourages pre-service teachers to engage in thoughtful analysis and adaptation of instructional methods. This crucial professional skill enables pre-service teachers to navigate the dynamic landscape of teaching, fostering a continuous cycle of self-reflection and improvement. The central challenge revolves around the imperative task of improving pre-service teachers professional skills, as they navigate the complex endeavor of transforming artistic expertise into effective pedagogy. The objective of this research is to explore the professional competencies of pre-service art teachers utilizing reflective teaching practices within the field of art education. The research design involved conducting a library research, encompassing the reading and analysis of literature from academic journals and books. The research findings reveal crucial insights into the professional abilities of pre-service art teachers and effective teaching reflection methods. In terms of professional abilities, the study identifies key areas, including teaching design ability, teaching efficacy, and teaching reflection, shedding light on the multifaceted skills required for effective art education. Additionally, the investigation delves into various teaching reflection methods, encompassing assessment tools, lesson planning integration, technology utilization, interactive strategies, and creative approaches. In summary, this research emphasizes the crucial role of reflective teaching practices in art education, enabling pre-service teachers to continually refine their instructional methods. The study findings contribute valuable knowledge to the ongoing discourse on enhancing art education practices, providing a comprehensive understanding of both the skills required by teachers and the diverse methods available for fostering reflective teaching practices in the field. To address the identified challenge, teacher training programs should prioritize teaching design, efficacy, and reflection modules. Encouraging pre-service teachers to engage in reflective practices and integrating diverse methods into training programs will better equip educators for the dynamic demands of art education.

PEDAGOGICAL CONDITIONS OF FORMATION OF STYLE OF PEDAGOGICAL COMMUNICATION OF FUTURE MUSIC TEACHERS IN THE PROCESS WORKING WITH THE CHOIR

The article updates the significance of the formation of an individual style of pedagogical communication for a future music teacher. The pedagogical orientation of the professional training of future teachers of musical art is emphasized, in which a significant place is given to conducting and choral training, which determines and specifies their work with the choir. As a result of the analysis of the scientific literature, the views of modern researchers regarding the pedagogical conditions of the professional training of future teachers of art disciplines are summarized. The author's understanding of the pedagogical communication of future music teachers in the process of working with the choir is presented. Pedagogical conditions that ensure the effectiveness of the formation of the pedagogical communication style of future music teachers in the process of working with the choir have been determined. To determine the effective pedagogical conditions for the formation of the style of pedagogical communication, the methods of scientific and theoretical analysis and generalization are applied.Keywords: future music teachers, pedagogical conditions, style of pedagogical communication, communication, creative interaction, conducting and choral training.

METHODS OF IMPROVING THE COMMUNICATIVE SKILLS OF FUTURE TEACHERS OF MUSICAL ART IN THE CLASSES OF THE ORCHESTRAL GROUP

The article reveals the specifics of the methodology developed by us to improve the communicative skills of students of the faculties of arts who are engaged in orchestral music-making. Orchestral music-making as a kind of collective cooperation contains many functional moments that stimulate the desire to communicate and develop professional activities. It is the student creative team that is the springboard, the team that pushes future teachers of musical art into an interesting process of professional activity, improving communication skills and motivating them to acquire a wide range of creative and social connections, which in the future will lead to maximum professional fulfillment, which will be socially useful and will inspire future generations to self-expression and development.Key words: communication skills, orchestra group, future music teachers, professional training, creative potential.

Developing a Gamified Digital Learning Media to Cultivate Singing Skills for Junior High School Students

Digital learning media based on gamification is rarely found in singing education, yet the impact of utilizing such learning tools cannot be underestimated. Therefore, this study aimed to develop a gamified digital learning media product for cultural arts education in junior high schools. The research adopts a Research and Development (R&D) approach using the ADDIE model, focusing on the development and validation process of gamified digital learning media suitable for educational purposes. The research subjects consist of media experts, content experts, and cultural arts teachers from State Junior High School 3 Grogol, Sukoharjo. Data collection techniques involve a media validation questionnaire, which is then analyzed using percentages and described to provide an overview of the suitability level of this gamified media. The research results indicate that the average validation results obtained from media experts I and II are 86%, while the average results from content experts I and II are also 86%. After being validated by the cultural arts teachers, the gamified media received an average total score of 87% from three teachers, all falling under the 'very good' qualification. Therefore, based on the assessments of media experts, content experts, and teachers, it is concluded that the gamified digital learning media product is categorized as 'suitable' for use as an alternative cultural arts learning media in State Junior High School 3 Grogol. The existence of this appropriate media undoubtedly stands as an innovative learning tool, incorporating gaming elements to enrich the process of singing skills.

Exploring STEAM teachers’ trust in AI-based educational technologies: a structural equation modelling approach

In the rapidly evolving landscape of education, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a transformative tool with the potential to revolutionize teaching and learning processes. However, the successful integration of AI in education depends on the trust and acceptance of teachers. This study addresses a significant gap in research by investigating the trust dynamics of 677 in-service Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) teachers in Nigeria towards AI-based educational technologies. Employing structural equation modelling for data analysis, our findings reveal that anxiety, preferred methods to increase trust, and perceived benefits significantly influence teachers' trust in AI-based edtech. Notably, the lack of human characteristics in AI does not impact trust among STEAM teachers. Additionally, our study reports a significant gender moderation effect on STEAM teachers' trust in AI. These insights are valuable for educational policymakers and stakeholders aiming to create an inclusive, AI-enriched instructional environment. The results underscore the importance of continuous professional development programs for STEAM teachers, emphasizing hands-on experiences to build and sustain confidence in integrating AI tools effectively, thus fostering trust in the transformative potentials of AI in STEAM education.

NURTURING CREATIVITY IN NON-ART-SPECIALISED PROSPECTIVE TEACHERS: A CASE STUDY

Theoretically, art has been given a place in the school curriculum, but it is considered a fringe subject. This was also observed in prospective teachers with specialisations other than art, and likewise, they were reluctant to draw or paint. There is a need to understand the underlying issues and fill the gaps. This will help in prospective teachers’ personality development. In addition, they will help promote art in their schools, which they will join after finishing teacher training, which can pave the way for art-integrated teaching envisioned in National Education Policy 2020. This study aims to examine prospective teachers’ understanding of art and attitudes towards art as a subject, as well as the experiences that shaped them. It also attempts to organise an art workshop to see if it can help bridge the gap in the prospective teachers' understanding of art. For the study, 300 prospective teachers with specialisations other than art were taken as participants. Questionnaire was followed by a painting activity. Qualitative analysis highlighted the issues and gaps. It reflected participants' misconceptions of art, fears, and disinterest in art, as well as a discouraging school and home environment. It also reflected the issues in the teaching and learning process: a lack of trained art teachers and art being in the curriculum just in theory. The analysis was followed by organising the art workshop, focusing on bridging the gaps. Participants created artwork, and its qualitative analysis expressed values, showed growth in their understanding of art, and reflected participants' joy in its creation, aligning with art education's aim as mentioned in the National Curriculum Framework for School Education 2023.It is concluded that there are issues and challenges, and art workshops can bridge the gap in prospective teachers’ understanding of art. Consequently, art is essential to "teacher education" and can facilitate art-integrated learning, as outlined in the NCFSE 2023.

HISTORICAL ASPECTS OF THE TRAINING OF DECORATIVE AND APPLIED ARTS SPECIALISTS IN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS OF UKRAINE

The paper examines the historical aspects of the development specialists in decorative and applied arts training in Ukraine on the example of porcelain production (late 18th century – today) and its current state abroad. In line with the issue of introduction of this direction of decorative and applied art in our country, examples of its flourishing in the cities of Koret (production of baroque Meissen porcelain), Baranivka, Hrodnytsia, Dovbysh (Iliinskyi Manufactory, Markhlov Factory, Dovbysh Porcelain Factory, Polonsky Porcelain Factory); Poltava, Boryslav, Sumy, Ternopil (opening of porcelain factories in 1965) are characterized. It has been found that along with the foundation and development of porcelain industries there were professional schools focused on training skilled craftsmen to work in the factory, in particular schools in Kyiv, Lviv, Kharkiv; Myrhorod Art and Industrial School in Poltava region, etc.). The high-quality training of pottery and porcelain and faience specialists, teachers of graphic arts and drawing, masters of artistic decoration of products ready to perform significant amounts of physical work - making tiles, bulky dishes, decorating the facades of churches, houses, fireplaces, creating sculptures, interior and exterior decorations - was facilitated by the activities of famous artists and teachers S. Maslenikov, O. Slastion, and V. Krychevskyi, who also supervised the production of outstanding works and participation in industrial exhibitions. Key words: decorative and applied arts, ethnological training of specialists, porcelain production, domestic and foreign experience, ethnography.

Expansive assessment of expansive abilities: Teachers’ perspectives and practices with multimodal and translanguaged content assessments

BackgroundExpansive assessment seeks to reimagine assessment in content and language integrated learning (CLIL) through the lens of expansive theories of communication (e.g., multimodality, translanguaging). However, for expansive assessment to be consequential for students in CLIL classrooms, teachers must be open to recognizing student learning expressed in ways that go beyond what has been traditionally privileged (e.g., written English). AimsThis article reports on two complementary studies of U.S. teachers’ perspectives and practices related to expansive assessment. Study 1 addressed multimodal assessment with pre-service teachers (PSTs) in science. Study 2 addressed translanguaged assessment with in-service teachers (ISTs) in language arts. SamplesParticipants in Study 1 were 10 PSTs. Participants in Study 2 were two ISTs from different elementary schools with different instructional arrangements. MethodsInterviews and observations were used to elicit teachers' perspectives on expansive assessment and their practices interpreting students’ performances. ResultsIn both studies, teachers' perspectives closely reflected their practices. For example, PSTs whose perspectives eschewed logocentrism tended to recognize evidence of science learning in students' visual responses. However, there were also findings unique to each study. For example, ISTs’ perspectives and practices related to translanguaged assessment were mediated by the language policies at their schools. ConclusionsThe two studies, which examined different teacher populations, assessment approaches, and content areas, converge in highlighting three overarching themes to guide future research: (a) the importance of clarity regarding constructs assessed, (b) the contextual mediation of teachers’ perspectives and practices, and (c) the need for teacher learning across their careers.

Carrie Mae Weems’ Intersectional Tropes: Engaging Black Feminism Within Arts Teacher Education

ABSTRACT In this article, we approach the visual tropes in Carrie Mae Weems’ bodies from an intersectional perspective through mobilising critical arts and black feminist studies for art pedagogies. A constant in Weems’ trajectory are the intersectional tropes that emerge in her artworks, which are collapsed with bodies, defying racial, gender, age, and social class stereotypes, stratification, and oppression. Aiming to engage black feminism with pedagogies, we revisit a critical art project that connects different spaces: the exhibition “Carrie Mae Weems: A Great Turn in the Possible”; and, a pre-service art teacher education course - “Childhoods: Inclusive narratives through art” - where narrative is a mode of decolonising pedagogy through contemporary art. First, we will examine the topics and strategies practised by five students’ micro-groups dealing with the critical and dialogical analysis of the intersectional tropes in Weems’ series. Second, we will reconstruct the process that has been conducted to transform and transfer that knowledge into educational spaces and resources designed to perform a feminist, intercultural, and social justice-oriented art education. Finally, the article discusses how critical pedagogy merges with critical arts to train future art educators while experimenting with a black feminist curriculum.

An Assessment of the Resurgence of Historical and Classical fashion due to the economical use of language in South Africa

The common trend of fashion is that it comes and goes as history changes and human development advances. However, as humans develop and are supposed to be progressing, sometimes in terms of fashion they also retrogress. The assumption is that language used by advertisers and designers influences people to revisit history. The purpose of this study was to argue that the work of art never expires as it gets repackaged, remodelled and modified over the ages. Some works and designs of art used in a particular period of history may have become obsolete, but the use of a language in a future epoch may bring them back to popularity. In this conceptual qualitative study, literature from both online and offline was used in making the case that art develops with the use of language than perishing. Within this desktop conceptual study, it was found that the language of advertisement is crucial in portraying fashion because language use can revive fashion. The power of language creates a hunt and frenzy to wear clothes of the 1500s calling them ‘vintage’. Using an analytic theoretic framework, this paper investigated the linguistic power and its influence on different epochs. This study specifically argued for the necessary merger between art and linguistics as that would be beneficial in creating classical fashion trends. The recommendation thereof was that teachers of art must work together with language specialists and incorporate both value and language in advertisements. This study posits that language has much power to influence the economy, culture, fashion, and even lifestyle of many people across generations. Keywords: Fashion Fads, Language Potency, Vintage, Economic Language, Fashion Resurgence

Supporting Multilingual Learners: A Pilot Survey of Art Teachers

Multilingual learners’ (MLs’) access to a rich arts curriculum is often overshadowed by their need to learn English and “core” content. Yet MLs should have equitable access to arts education alongside their monolingual peers. An important avenue for offering this access is teacher preparedness. This study reports on a pilot survey of preK–12 visual arts teachers regarding their beliefs about and practices with MLs in the arts classroom. Survey items from four different scales measuring culturally and linguistically responsive teaching and beliefs were adopted. The responses of 26 teachers illustrated generally positive beliefs, practices, and confidence, but variation among respondents was high. Patterns in the data point to interesting future steps in the work, including the need to examine why teachers who had undergone training on teaching MLs were less confident in their ability to teach this population.

High Ecological Integration Within U.S. Art Teacher Education: A Collective Case Study

We live in a world of accelerating ecological devastation, where environmental violence is culturally and economically ingrained in dominant human societies. The term “Anthropocene” implies a threshold has been breached, and suggests radical reassessments of prevailing social, economic, political, and educational systems are needed. Some art teacher education programs in the United States deviate from predominant trends by embracing ecological integration and preparing art preservice teachers to implement ecological and environmental art pedagogies. Such “aberrant” programs offer rich sites to explore for methods that might be emulated beyond these singular cases. In this study, we examined how three U.S. art teacher education programs, identified as having high levels of ecological integration, infused ecological and environmental approaches into their course content and teaching methods. Themes included exposure to relational ways of being, entanglements with the land and community, collective productions of ecological integration, and infusion of art teacher educators’ multiple identities.

Critical Inquiry in (and About) Media Environments: Examining an Asset-Based Digital Literacy Curriculum

Scholars have long recognized that reading in digital spaces requires unique skills, strategies, and competencies in comparison to those needed for reading printed text. In recent years, the ubiquity of social media and algorithmically targeted content has radically changed the nature of online reading and meaning making. Technological changes have occurred simultaneously with radically altered sociocultural and sociopolitical contexts. To account for an altered technological and sociocultural landscape, new approaches to teaching digital reading and critical media literacy are needed. Addressing these concerns, this case study detailed a digital reading curriculum designed to be responsive to both the contemporary digital media environment and to students’ out-of-school digital literacy practices and contexts. The curriculum was collaboratively designed by five middle-school language arts teachers who participated in a semester-long professional learning group focused on digital reading. Drawing upon sociocultural, asset-based, and culturally relevant philosophies of education, these five teachers designed a unique digital reading curriculum. This study examined the nature of this curriculum. The findings detailed four aspects of the teachers’ unit: (1) digital reading instruction situated within students’ literate lives; (2) critical instruction regarding systemic features of the internet such as algorithms and clickbait; (3) lessons in which students interrogate socially situated meaning making; and (4) lessons focused on the role of emotions while reading online. The findings have implications for future digital reading and media literacy curricula intended to be responsive to students’ funds of knowledge, ever-changing literacy technologies, and new, emergent ways of reading and practicing literacy on the internet.

느린 학습자의 문화예술 체험 활동을 통한 문화예술교육 지원 방안 연구

The purpose of this study is to identify the characteristics of slow learners who are overlooked by institutional frameworks and to examine how cultural and arts experiences can facilitate their cognitive, affective and physical development. This research aims to propose strategies to support cultural and arts education tailored for slow learners. To achieve this, interviews were conducted with parents, primary school and middle school teachers, counselors, cultural and arts center and educational institutions managers and art instructors who have provided cultural and arts experience education to slow learners. The analysis results are organized by separating them into individual and institutional dimensions. At the individual level, the findings indicate the need for cultural and arts activities that enable slow learners to experience a sense of achievement. Since slow learners are educated alongside regular students, they often feel a relatively lower sense of achievement across cognitive, affective, and physical domains, leading to a loss of motivation to learn. Additionally, the study suggests expanding opportunities for communication among students, and between teachers and students, to make them more comfortable with expressing themselves internally. This involves providing numerous opportunities for self-expression by leveraging the variety and enjoyment of communication activities. Furthermore, the active use of play-based learning is advocated. Engaging in play involves all domains—cognitive, affective, and physical—and increases the chance for achievement due to the diversity of levels. At the institutional level, the findings can be summarized as follows. First, there is a need for policy support for cultural and arts experience education for slow learners, a point that has been highlighted in various studies. Without this support, the social costs could become substantially high. Secondly, there is a call for support within the framework of lifelong education. The principle of lifelong education is based on self-directed learning, where individuals select the content and level of their learning. However, self-directed learning poses challenges for slow learners, necessitating the need for learning assistants. This area requires institutional support via policy backing.

Exploring Innovative Approaches and Interventions to Address Misconceptions and Promote Effective Visual Arts Education in Secondary Schools in Ghana

Visual arts education is important in developing students’ creativity, critical thinking, and cultural awareness. However, in Ghana, visual arts subjects at the secondary school level often need help with challenges such as lack of resources, large class sizes, and misconceptions about the value of art education. This study aimed to explore innovative approaches and interventions that could address misconceptions and promote effective visual arts education in Ghana’s secondary schools. A qualitative document analysis and thematic analysis were conducted. Relevant policy documents, national curriculum frameworks, and previous research studies related to visual arts education in Ghana were analyzed to identify existing challenges, opportunities, and recommendations. Key emerging themes included misconceptions about visual arts subjects, lack of resources, training for art teachers and large class sizes that do not augur well for hands-on learning. The analysis also identified recommendations such as integrating visual arts across the curriculum, promoting art exhibitions, and leveraging community resources and partnerships to support visual arts programmes. This study provides insights into existing challenges in visual arts education in Ghana’s secondary schools and highlights innovative approaches that could help address misconceptions and strengthen visual arts programmes. Integrating visual arts across subject areas, promoting art exhibitions, improving teacher training, and leveraging community partnerships may help promote effective visual arts education.

I arrived at the sun! Developing an educational board game with the collaboration of pre‐service art and pre‐service science teachers

AbstractThe aim of this study was to describe the design process of an educational board game, the Planet‐Dart. This board game design is based on the science curriculum and aims to enhance middle school students' basic concepts about solar system. The purpose of developing this educational game was to provide an entertaining way for learning science. A pre‐service art teacher designed the game with the support of two pre‐service science teachers. The pilot study was conducted with two middle school students, and with the feedback based on the pilot study the pre‐service art teacher made modifications to the game. Then, the main implementation of the game was conducted in a real‐classroom environment with 60 middle school students by one pre‐service science teacher and two science teachers. The qualitative results revealed that this game was an enjoyable and effective learning tool to play among middle school students. In addition, the pre‐ and in‐service science teachers emphasized that there was an entertaining learning environment during the play. Based on these findings, the developed educational board game could enhance students' learning outcomes and entertainment.

The Application Strategy of Graphic Combination in Primary Art Teaching

Graphic teaching is a teaching mode that guides teachers to combine images and words in the course of teaching. This teaching mode enables art teachers to explain the course content to students in a more intuitive way, deepen their understanding of what they have learned, and promote the improvement of art level and aesthetic ability. At the same time, it also helps to cultivate students' good study habits and achieve their all-round development. After consulting that no matter which version of the current primary school art textbooks are composed of text and picture typesetting. They complement each other and are closely linked to guide the learners. This is enough to explain an important feature of the combination of pictures and texts in art teaching, that is, teachers should pay attention to the combination of pictures and texts in teaching, especially in PPT courseware, and try to avoid all words or only pictures. This paper will discuss the essay and drawing diary and the combination of illustration and text in the form of graphic combination. This paper demonstrates the significance of graphic combination to the primary school art teaching and puts forward the application strategy of graphic combination in the primary school art teaching. Finally, the importance of graphic combination teaching to the overall development of students and the cultivation of social talents is emphasized again.

Secondary school teachers' perceptions of the shared creative processes and the potential role of technology in the expressive arts

AbstractWith the introduction of Curriculum for Wales and the restructuring of subjects into Areas of Learning and Experience (AoLE), each AoLE is encouraged to have ‘an identifiable disciplinary and instrumental core’. When considered in combination with the COVID‐19 pandemic and increased technology use within teaching, both the shared creative processes and the potential role of technology are important to conceptualise. This paper provides insight into expressive arts teachers' perceptions of the macro‐level creative processes shared across each subject area through a technology lens. A new tripartite classification provides clarity regarding the macro‐level creative processes (Creative opportunities, Critical responses and Performance/production) and the role of technology to enable equal opportunities and wider accessibility for learners to access, and potentially succeed within, the creative process.

PEMBELAJARAN INTEGRASI SENI: STUDI KASUS PADA PELATIHAN GURU-GURU SENI BUDAYA

The current case study aims at describing arts integration approach through the intertwined learning materials of theatre and music in the process of an online training program for arts teachers conducted by BBPPMPV Seni dan Budaya in 2020. Arts integration is an approach that blends content and skills from one arts element with another arts element (music, visual arts, dance, or theater), or with another academic subject. The case study focuses on two research questions, namely (1) How are the design of theater and music learning materials constructed through arts integration approach in an arts teacher training program? and (2) How do teacher trainees describe their theater and music learning experiences through arts integration approach? Qualitative data gathered from a sequence of learning process observation, documentation of participants’ assignment results, reflection process, and results of participants’ work. The results of the study demonstrate that (1) theater and music learning materials through arts integration approach were designed using the linkage factor of the two arts elements which were subsequently taught intertwiningly, and (2) the integration of two arts elements was described by the teacher trainees as a brand-new, engaging, and demanding learning experience which may eventually be an alternative approach they may possibly adopt for the online arts learning in public schools during pandemic time.

KESIAPAN GURU SENI BUDAYA DALAM PELATIHAN ONLINE DI ERA INDUSTRI 4.0.

Industrial era 4.0. implies major changes in all aspects of life, especially in the field of education. Although web-based learning has been a major issue since the early of 21st century, digital skills are still emerging as a constraint. The global pandemic has abruptly pushed online training as an answer to sustainability within education. This study explores the readiness of teachers in online training in the new adaptation era. The research subjects were 187 art and culture teachers of junior, senior, and vocational high schools attended online training conducted by BBPPMPV Seni dan Budaya. The result of the study demonstrates significant achievement of teachers’ scores in the test. However, some conditions were recognized as teachers’ limitation during the online training, namely the access to the internet, the availability of tools and materials of skills practice, and their mastery of Google Classroom as learning management system. Teachers’ self-motivated action to join the online training and the increase of their post-test scores reveal their readiness for attending the online training. On the other hand, online training is not just an issue to learn something by the means of internet, but it is also critical to reflect on how to bring classroom experiences into the online platform by utilizing LMS features which support learning process itself