The Expectancies of Education Unions in Relation to Visual Arts Teachers’ Qualifications
Abstract
The aim of this study
is to examine the expectancies of education unions in relation to visual arts
teachers’ qualifications. The data were collected through focus group
interviews with the board members of two education unions (N = 13) located in
the central district of a city in the Western Black Sea region. The grounded
theory method was adopted in the present study, and the data collection,
coding, analyzing processes, as well as category and theme creation processes,
were all conducted accordingly. The data were analyzed by using NVivo 7
qualitative data analysis software. The findings showed that the expectancies
of education union board members could be explained through 21 themes (e.g.,
value, communication ability, and special education knowledge) and 82
categories (e.g., freedom, democracy, creativity, philosophy of art knowledge,
and initial teacher education) that formed them. The findings also demonstrated
that the mentioned themes could be also meaningfully explained through 15
meta-themes (e.g., art education policies, visual arts teacher’s professional
beliefs). However, because it enables to
explicate the research findings briefly and more meaningfully, the findings
were discussed based on the 10 meta-themes labeled as art education policies,
visual arts teachers’ personality characteristics, vocational beliefs, values,
professional knowledge, subject-matter knowledge, affective characteristics, to
carry out social and cultural activities, organizing ability, and selection and
training of prospective visual arts teachers. Within this context, the findings
revealed that the education union board members expected visual arts teachers
to have such qualifications as being open to innovations, engaging with
continuous self-development, holding commitment to the profession, being
humanistic, perceiving art and art education as the means for social
transformation, utilizing effective in-class and out-of-class teaching methods
and techniques, having not only field related knowledge, but also professional
knowledge, and willing to implement these knowledge excitedly and eagerly.
Furthermore, it was also determined that the union board members believed that
the potentials of teacher education programs, which are perceived as an
extension of the current art education policies, for preservice teachers to
gain the mentioned qualifications were weak. In line with the findings of the
study, it was suggested that effective art education policies should be created
and developed, visual arts teacher education should be started at secondary
school level, visual arts should be taught by in-field teachers from the
beginning of preschool level, and within this context, teacher education
programs should be designed to provide opportunities for gaining expertise
according to the developmental stages of children.
Keywords
Kaynakça
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Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
Türkçe
Konular
Eğitim Üzerine Çalışmalar
Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yayımlanma Tarihi
22 Aralık 2016
Gönderilme Tarihi
22 Aralık 2016
Kabul Tarihi
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Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2016 Cilt: 6 Sayı: 3