Examining Female Students’ Artistic Production towards the Teaching of Visual Culture: Exploratory Study in Selected Female Colleges of Education in Ashanti Region, Ghana.
- January 6, 2021
- Posted by: RSIS Team
- Categories: Education, IJRISS
International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume IV, Issue XII, December 2020 | ISSN 2454–6186
Augusta Adu-Sakyi1, Abraham Aibie2
1Tutor, Creative Arts Department, Agogo Presbyterian Women’s College of Education.
2Tutor, Creative Arts Department, Methodist College of Education
ABSTRACT:- The paper delved on how tutors of Arts education can meticulously assist learners comprehend imagery and text as regards how the virtual world is manipulated. The synopsis being emphasized that tutors of Arts education ought to appreciate that consumption remains the indispensable basis of the social order of teaching and learning in the current curriculum and visual culture in Colleges of Education in Ghana.
Through the tutelage offered to learners to better appreciate the processes and products associated with visual culture, we imbibe in these learners, clarity of how imagined and constructed the world represents, leading to a better articulation of the learners’ ambitions through evolving technologies.
Qualitative research technique was adopted for the study in the form of battery of test (questionnaire) administered, observation and interview guide. Simple random sampling technique was used to select two Colleges of Education in Ashanti region, thus Agogo Presbyterian Women’s College of Education and St. Louis College of Education.
The article found significant association between female students’ artistic production and the teaching of visual culture in the selected Colleges of Education and recommended that Arts Tutors in Colleges of Education should prioritize students artistic production even though there are associated challenges such as low patronage of the programme, inadequate studios as well as low esteem towards Visual Arts education.
Accordingly, the authors’ remarks on artistic production and visual culture was that “As long as academicians remain astute, there is the need to restrict our precious time debating on the structural deficit of curriculum and instead focus more on its meanings; we would concentrate lesson state limited guidelines and more on the interconnectedness of the local and global communities; we would be less motivated as regards the technical attributes of art and focus more on the fundamental tenets of art ;and more importantly, we would harness educational scarce resources from teaching students what we were taught and more on what they should rather know.
Keywords: Artistic production, Visual Culture, Colleges of Education.
1.0 INTRODUCTION
Education remains a right in Ghana as constitutionally enshrined in Article 25 of the 1992 Constitution of Ghana and widely acclaimed as a means of augmenting the human capital of nations for judicious socio-economic development (Asare Danso S., 2014). Against this backdrop, Colleges of Education (herein upgraded to University Colleges of Education) have been mandated to foster the training and effective grooming of teacher trainees to facilitate the teaching and learning processes in schools(Aweso, Armstrong, Boadu, Nsakwa and Nyarko,2020). According to European Union (2012),“when it comes to educational institutions, teaching professionals are regarded as the most important antecedents of how learners will perform which is further corroborated by the content knowledge of tutors and delivery same professionally”.
