Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Australian Art Education, cilt.32, sa.2, ss.27-55, 2009 (Hakemli Dergi)
Culture is a concept that explains what we know, how we act and what we believe While cultural identities emerge based on the tendencies to have and sustain certain behaviours, beliefs and rules belonging to certain communities. Today's intercultural interaction includes connection between cultures and behaviours through cultural perception. Individuals' increasing interest in other cultures besides their own is quite an important impetus behind cultural interactions. It must be noted that students, as from the elementary school, get to know their own cultures and other cultures and they are taught to acquire necessary skills to be able to constructively communicate with people from different cultures, while bracing themselves for the real challenges of today's globalised world. The main purpose of this research is to reveal primary school students' ways of expressing their perception of culture in their written and pictorial representations. For this main purpose it was asked students on cultural understanding and awareness in the society they live in. Later students' perception of culture was determined based on written representations and pictures. The data of the research, which was projected based on the qualitative research method, were collected in the form of written representations, pictures and written thoughts on the elements depicted in pictures, and the findings obtained were analysed and interpreted based on the descriptive analyses method.