Open AccessTeacher Education through Art: How to Teach Social Sciences through Artwork –The Student-Teachers’ Views
Author(s) -
Vasiliki Brinia,
Reni Giannimara,
Paraskevi Psoni,
George Stamatakis
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
global journal of educational studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2377-3936
DOI - 10.5296/gjes.v4i1.12607
Subject(s) - experiential learning , perspective (graphical) , mathematics education , the arts , visual arts education , pedagogy , field (mathematics) , fine art , teaching method , social studies , psychology , sociology , visual arts , art , mathematics , pure mathematics
The present paper aims at presenting an innovative approach to educating teacher-candidates through the art. More specifically, it aims at exploring the benefits of this approach for student-teachers and for their future teaching of social science subjects. It is an experiential approach, based on a multi-level methodology, developed and implemented through the collaboration of the Teacher Education Program of Athens University of Economics and Business with the Aalto University and the Athens School of Fine Arts. After the completion of the implementation of the specific teaching method, the student-teachers have been interviewed, in order to detect their views on the effectiveness of this method, which has been introduced for the first time in the Teacher Education field in Greece. The results are positive with the interviewees reporting having achieved an in-depth and multi-perspective understanding of the matter in discussion as well as enhanced collaborative skills among other benefits.