The Study of Environmetal Art Education for First Graders：Using the Environmental Materials Integrating into Classroom Management and Decoration Curriculum as an Example

• Main Author: 鄧慧姬
• Other Authors: 高震峰
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/22244431239732579243

碩士 === 臺北市立教育大學 === 視覺藝術學系視覺藝術教學碩士學位班 === 100 === For students, classrooms are the most important space at school and the center for learning and relaxing. From the angle and trench of environmental art education and based on the framework of worldwide literature related to art education, environmental education and classroom arrangement and decoration, this study applies activities of using environmental materials to decorate classroom as an action research on a class of first-graders at Sijhou elementary school in New Taipei city. With the approach of observation, worksheets and the outcomes from interviews, such have been discussed in the study as blending environmental issues in art education, and the content and meaning of applying environmental materials in classroom arrangement and decoration plus teaching strategy and performance. The outcomes are as followed: I. The content of performing activities of classroom arrangement and decoration in the course of everyday life can enable students to learn well and increase students’ learning interest in art and attention in environmental issues by blending environmental issues respectively into classroom arrangement and decoration, creation and appreciation of art, quality of art material and media, and the concepts of creative forms. II. Teaching strategies mainly applied in teaching activities are collaborative learning among the peer groups, demonstration and discussion of artworks, and direct retrospection for students’ works and their creative process by projecting the images on the screen. III. In the item of classroom arrangement and decoration, the learning corners with environmental issues for students’ free drawing didn’t attract too much students’ interests, which is a huge gap between the original design; while other items are highly participated by students and the effect is good. Suggestions are below: I. There is still great value in blending environmental issues into art education and potential to go on further researches on other older students in order to understand the difference among students in other stages. II. Although the newly garbage produced in creative work teaching with environmental materials has been considered, yet it is still inevitable. The further researches should solve this problem in order to achieve the goal—zero garbage. The findings above may offer other teachers some reference in proceeding art education in the future.