Integrating Creative Photography Pedagogy in General Education

AbstractIn our modern society, technology is no longer science-fiction. As technology lowers the technical threshold for creative end endeavours to the point where it has become a part of everyday life, the creative spirit seems to have lost its sacredness. Nowadays, a device like smartphone helps people to produce works without risks. However, it brings two problems: First, during creating process without risks, users pay less consideration. Second, great amount of digital wastes. To Find an efficient way for stimulating students’ artistic creation and set up the ecological thinking in young generations’ mind, this study selected a general education course at “University M” in Changhua, Taiwan to incorporate simple composition and posing techniques for students who had not been exposed to professional photography training to be re-introduced to photography as a creative medium. It is also the objective of this study for the students to see the elective course of general education – the “Organic Life and Health” in a different light through a new form of stimuli.This research is an Action Research to proceed an experiment and analyse the result to reveal the differences between before and after of their assignments. The results show that incorporating art into the course offered advantages and possibilities for creative development and application. Students who are familiarized to the virtual world can now live in the real world again, when providing a gateway for them