[[alternative]]An Experimental Study: Integrated Pedagogic Concepts of Visual Culture into Art Making Curriculum in Junior High Schools

[[abstract]]An Experimental Study: Integrated Pedagogic Concepts of Visual Culture into Art Making Curriculum in Junior High Schools Hsiu-Chi Chiang Abstract Under the influence of postmodern art education, art making instruction gradually outgrows the confinement of materials and techniques. Instead, it starts to emphasize the importance of its integration with real lives. In recent years, the research in the area of visual culture has started to be under the spotlight in the art education field due to its close relevance with the social activities. The focus in our study lies in generalizing some practical pedagogic concepts with the reference of some visual-culture related theories. Gradually, we hope we can further integrate the concepts into the postmodern art making curriculum to explore the learning achievement and satisfaction of junior high school students. The subjects in this study were eighth-grade students of the junior high school in Tao-Yuan County. We adopted the nonequivalent posttest-only control group design. A total of 75 junior high school students participated. The basic unit was a class. We randomly assigned one experimental group and one control group. The former received the pedagogic concepts of visual culture while the latter did not. The total length of time for each of the groups was 8 weeks with a class in each week. In the end, some relevant evaluation sheets and survey questionnaire were distributed to all participants. To find answers to her four research questions, the researcher adopted the methods of literature review, MANCOVA and ANCOVA. Some results were revealed as follows: 1.The four practical pedagogical concepts of visual culture were developed on the basis of some relevant theories. 2.The four pedagogic concepts of visual culture can be incorporated into the content of art making curriculum. 3.The four pedagogic concepts of visual culture can enhance junior high school students’ learning achievement in art making curriculum. 4.The four pedagogic concepts of visual culture can increase students’ learning satisfaction toward art making curriculum. Finally, according to the conclusion of this study, some suggestions were provided on the four aspects: the application of the four pedagogic concepts of visual culture, the guidance of art making instruction, the implementation of art making curriculum, and the execution of some relevant researches.