Summary: | 碩士 === 南華大學 === 美學與藝術管理研究所 === 93 === For the defect of the Community-Oriented Art Education, this research is aimed at integrating Creative Thinking Teaching Strategies to develop an art instructional unit, which could not only strengthen students’ creativity but also arouse the consciousness of the community culture environment. Based on the cultural and environmental features of the community and students’ capacities, this study starts with designing an art lesson unit for an art-class of the Ju-chi Elementary School for gifted-and-talented fifth graders.
This study tries to answer these questions: How to apply Creative Thinking Teaching Strategies to the Community-Oriented Art Pedagogy? During the process, how are the learning attitude and effect of the students? How does the teacher experience and reflect? And then, based on the findings, the recommendations are made for other teachers and researchers who are interested in relevant issues.
Through analysis and exploration, this study has several findings listed as follows:
Ⅰ.The ways of applying creative thinking teaching strategies to a community-oriented art pedagogy are: 1.employing the concept of “the Épeire” to planning the lesson and pedagogy; 2.considering the community’s culture and student’s artistic development; 3.developing a well-organized learning process.
Ⅱ.The advantages of applying creative thinking teaching strategies to a community-oriented art pedagogy are: 1.Students are more concerned with the community’s cultural environment ; 2.Students are more interested in art learning; 3.Students are more confident in making art and taking other challenges; 4. Students are more willing to think and create.
Ⅲ.The limitations of applying creative thinking teaching strategies to a community-oriented art pedagogy are: 1.It takes time, efforts, and professional skills to develop a lesson plan like this; 2.Students’ learning experiences may cause some difficulties in participation; 3.It is not easy to know thoroughly about students’ backgrounds and the community; 4.It is still difficult to develop appropriate assessment methods.
Based upon the results and findings, this research makes suggestions about the lesson planning, teaching strategies, and pedagogy assessment. Besides, it points out the direction for further studies.
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