Views of students in sculpture workshop lessons regarding waste material use and recycle products

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Canan Demir

Abstract

Students in sculpture workshop lessons use various materials as allowed by the technical knowledge and pattern within artistic production process. The used materials may be waste materials as well as ready purchased materials. Students contribute to artistic production process, nature and social responsibilities while using waste materials. With this research, 1 year experience of future visual arts instructors regarding waste material use in sculpture workshop lessons and their views regarding this are tried to be determined. It is supposed that the students’ using the waste materials in education and learning process will be effective in enhancing their awareness towards the environment. This is important in terms of their being sensitive to people their environments and making use of the waste materials as well as artistic production. Qualitative research methods are used in the study.  Study groups are used instead of universe and sample for healthy content analysis of interviews. Interviews are analyzed using content analysis and descriptive analysis. As a result of the study, various codes and themes regarding waste material use by students in sculpture production process are found.


Keywords: visual art education, sculpture education, waste materials, recycling

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Demir, C. (2015). Views of students in sculpture workshop lessons regarding waste material use and recycle products. Global Journal of Design Art and Education, 5(1), 31–38. https://doi.org/10.18844/gjae.v5i1.57
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Design and Arts