A SPECIAL EXPERIENCE IN ART EDUCATION: AUTISM AND PAINTING
Journal Title: European Journal of Business and Social Sciences - Year 2013, Vol 1, Issue 11
Abstract
Art is, in itself, a process of to experience. The children who grew up with art become peaceful and struggling adults who have no difficulty to express themselves. Art plays a big part in people's improving themselves, liberalization and taming their souls with all disciplines in itself. That's why, art education is essential, even compulsory for everyone. As is known, although art education is called with different names in formal education, it consists of aesthetics, art criticism, art history and the spiral education of performance discipline which is aimed at material knowledge and developing more methods. Considering that art education which is the component part of compulsory education is essential for everyone and everyone is equal, its “special†part can be more emphatically felt in the education of handicapped children or children with various obstacles. It is necessary that not only physically or mentally handicapped, autistic children or children with loss of sense such as sight, hearing etc., the ones who has to stay in hospital permanently, but also gifted children are a part of the education. It is a necessity that those children and youngsters, as well as others, take the art education by firstly equality and then right of education. The subject of this research is autistic children and youngsters. When we look at the history of art education in Turkey, how and how qualified art education is given to those children? Is the art education given enough, considering the healing feature of art? The aim of the research, besides theoretical informations and compilations, is to emphasize the contribution of art activities made with those children and to call educators' attention to those children with a special case in any possible curriculum change and to advice them by giving informations about experiences. This research which is about autistic children's experiences with art consists of the art school support given by the Rectorate of Başkent University to the summer school programme of Ankara Branch of the Autism Foundation. Variably 20 children took part in the research; the research was structured with ceramic and painting classes and classes went on for one and a half month. In this process, the instructors collected data by qualitative data collection methods such as meeting and corporate data collection and gained experiences with the children. It is thought that this research will have many contributions not only in special education but also to the contents of visual arts training which aims at improving various skills in formal training going on till higher education.
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Assist. Prof. Dr. Eylem TATAROĞLU
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