A COMPARISON STUDY FOR THINKING SKILLS OF HIGHER EDUCATION STUDENTS IN TERMS OF VISUAL ARTS EDUCATION
Abstract
In
related literature, mostly research findings indicated that the effect of art
education upon creative thinking is positive. Also, prominent researchers
pointed out that critical thinking can be gained by art education. That is, it
can be expected that the effect of art education on critical thinking is also
helpful. In contrast to that, some research findings upon the creative thinking
reported that the effect of art education on creative thinking is ambiguous.
However, it was not found any research finding in the literature reported that
art education has also positive effect upon critical thinking. Hence, this
study aimed to investigate the effect of visual arts education upon creative
thinking and critical thinking disposition of Turkish university students.
Thus, this study is first to compare the Visual Arts Education students with
non-art students regarding critical thinking dispositions. As a regarding to
this interaction, it was made a prediction such that Visual Arts Education
would have a significant positive impact on art students compared to non-art
students in terms of the creative thinking and critical thinking disposition
skills. The causal comparative research
design was implemented in this study with using of the Torrance Test of
Creative Thinking and California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory. For
that, it was compared Visual Arts Education students (N= 33) with Elementary
Teacher Education students (N= 32) to investigate whether the creative thinking
and critical thinking disposition of Visual Arts Education students were
significantly differ from Elementary Teacher Education ones as non-art
students. According to results, it was not found significant effect indicating
that Visual Arts Education students performed better than Elementary Teacher
Education students upon creative thinking and critical thinking disposition.
However, art students had high scores on creative thinking subscale of Fluency
as significant. In contrast, Elementary Teacher Education students had
significant scores on Titles as the other creative thinking subscale. This
situation is also meaningful in terms of differences between education
disciplines as much as Visual Arts Education students and Elementary Teacher
Education students. According to this result, it is suggested that future study
should be conducted the thinking styles of students in terms of the teaching
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Primary Language
English
Subjects
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Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Publication Date
December 26, 2016
Submission Date
July 28, 2016
Acceptance Date
November 26, 2016
Published in Issue
Year 2016 Volume: 13 Number: 36