Cultural Literacy Skills of University Students Who Get Arts Education on Art Works

Abstract

This study aims to determine the perception levels of art educator candidate students of traditional culture and popular culture symbols or expressions on the works of art. This study is important in terms comprehension of students' perception skills and to determine whether these understandings are reflected in their artistic skills or not. A survey was conducted to find out the perception of culture on a total of 70 students studying in the 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th grades at the Painting Education Department of Necmettin Erbakan University, Ahmet Keleşoğlu Education Faculty, Fine Arts Education Department. Art works containing cultural symbols and expressions were used by the researcher in the study. Student views were taken over eight works of art with details from different cultures. The data of the research where the qualitative research method was used are collected in the form of written opinions about the works. In the analysis of the work, the data obtained from the views taken with the help of the questions which reveal the nature of the art history of the work was analyzed and interpreted through content analysis.

Keywords: Culture, Popular Culture, Art Education, Cultural Perception.