Heading to the Road of Aesthetic Caring: Action Research in Constructing a Teaching-Portfolio Blog for Visual Art Education

• Main Authors: Yen-Chun Lin, 林衍均
• Other Authors: 羅美蘭
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/hv62gr

碩士 === 國立臺北藝術大學 === 藝術與人文教育研究所碩士班 === 98 === The purpose of this study was to explore the process of establishing a visual art teaching blog. Metacognitive concepts were used to analyze the influences on teachers'' professional progress. Furthermore, through the exploration process, this study tried to comprehend teachers'' concepts regarding aesthetic caring teaching. The purposes of this study included the following three aspects: First of all, considering aesthetic caring as the essential notion, this study investigated teachers'' professional progress through exploring the process of developing visual art courses and reflection of the teaching. Second, further discussion on the process of constructing electronic teaching portfolios via blog as well as understanding its drawbacks and advantages provided suggestions for further research and practice. Third, in order to comprehend the practice of visual art courses based on aesthetic caring, this study analyzed the teaching portfolios through metacognitive concepts. The results provided the author references for future research and teaching. Through the literature review, this study discussed the development and current related research in respect of aesthetic caring. Then, the action research was undertaken with metacognitive reflection approach. Six-week courses for 6th grade students were developed. The courses were based on the framework of three-step teaching method of aesthetic caring—“beginning with appreciation”, “inspecting with judging eyes”, and “progressing with creativity” and combined with teacher’s self-learning and teaching experiences. In addition, every week, teaching related articles were posted on the blog and through the teaching reflection notes taken weekly on the blog, the author tried to self-evaluate and improve the process of constructing the electronic teaching portfolio blog. Through the research process, it was discovered that continuing constructing the electronic teaching portfolios via blog with metacognitive approach could enhance teacher''s capability in practicing as well as developing metacognitive concepts, and better teacher''s teaching professions specifically. Besides, in order to enhance its quality of constructing the teaching blog, three stages, matured stage by stage, were concluded and could be proceed from” confusion stage”, “settle stage”, to “ascertaining stage”. Deriving out of these three stages, thus, a “Teachers’ teaching portfolio blog circle” was generated. For the concrete development of aesthetic caring, the author believes that inspiration of liberal thinking, construction of aesthetic knowledge, and practice of creative practical trainings should be regarded as three essential elements for designing aesthetic caring serial courses. In addition, “responsibility”, “trust”, “respect”, and “sincerity”; these four teaching concepts should match teachers’ original ideas to make aesthetic caring teaching a happiness-spreading practice.