An Action Study of Character Education Integrated with Visual Art Course of Fourth Graders

• Main Authors: Tong,Yulin, 童鈺琳
• Other Authors: Hsiao,Baoling
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/75624754766065877861

碩士 === 國立臺中教育大學 === 美術學系碩士班 === 100 === Based on the importance of character education today and the highly promotion for moral behavior in the private primary school the researcher teaches, the study is expected to let the students who have been living wealthily understand more about caring about others, and cherishing blessings by visual arts learning. This study was not only made to discuss the background, content and meaning of the visual art education which character education integrated into, but also constructed the methods of adopting character education into visual art education in primary schools. This study mainly used the action research method and designed the visual art courses that were based on character education. By introducing artistic productions, the study guided students to admire and create artistic works.Let students understand the artists’ background and history and also realize the affection and concern to the society from the artistic works. Let students realize the value of various resources, appreciate other’s devotion and raise the moral behavior in the process of artistic creation. These visual art courses were focused on the 4th graders of the primary school in Tainan City, and the study had been lasting for fourteen weeks. The study collected, summarized, analyzed and concluded all the information from students’ self comments, collaborative observation and interviews from teachers and feedback from parents. Based on the result of the study, it brought up some suggestions for the reference of the visual art courses, character education and further investigations. According to the findings, several conclusions are presented as follows: 1. It helps students raise the moral behavior highly by integrating character education into visual art courses. 2. It can help students raise their learning motivation of the visual art courses by integrating character education into visual art courses. 3. For the course that integrates character education into visual art, there was no specific instruction objective to follow. It had to depend on teachers who integrated character education into the visual art course and put character education into practice in daily life.