Abstract:

This study aims to identify the visual art teachers’ views about zone of “visual art learning culture”, a course scheduled in secondary school curriculum. The study was carried out with 15 teachers currently working in three different cities in Turkey: Mersin, Hatay, and Aksaray. A semi-structured interview was conducted which included ten open ended questions. The analysis of the transcribed verbal data was processed through NVivo 8 to carry out a content analysis. The emerging themes were calculated as frequency and percentage distribution. Findings show that zone of “visual art learning culture seems an effective practice in 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th grades at secondary schools,. especially the lack of criticism of hours cases, incomplete formation of the program in terms of applicability, the variability of the student profile, it is seen that the negative views on the social and environmental impact of teacher qualifications.

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