Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
AUSTRALIAN ART EDUCATION, cilt.34, sa.2, ss.26-58, 2011 (Hakemli Dergi)
Activities aiming at creating cultural awareness are quite important in the education environments. Especially art education has a vital importance in this mission. Art education is a process in which students can discover, interpret and define their cultural identity. For this reason, it is possible to mention the art education as a rich resource which is used effectively in order to enable students to explain their cultures and to gain cultural awareness in terms of cultural values and cultural identity. This research aims at defining and comparing perceptions of Turkish culture with regard to pictorial representation by Turkish students who are living within Turkish and Norwegian cultures and in different cultural surroundings. The data of the study were gathered from 18 students from Cagdas Primary School in Eskisehir, Turkey, and 15 students from Fjel Multi-Cultural Primary School in Drammen, Norway, in 2008. The research was carried on the basis of art-based inquiry pattern which is one of the qualitative research methods. The data of the research was restricted to pictorial representations and written documents about pictorial representation. The findings were analyzed and interpreted in terms of descriptive analysis. As a result of the research; it is found out that students living in Turkey reflect more detailed cultural and sub-cultural elements in their pictorial representations and written documents while students living in Norway refer mostly to some specific elements of Turkish culture and have a limited perception of Turkish culture.