By: Roskang Jailani
The implementation of teaching and learning in Art Education is focused on the needs of fulfilling the development of individual awareness and sensitivity towards the values of positive mindset. Aesthetic qualities, such as imaginative, creative, intellectual, spiritual, emotional and physical balance, and harmony, are crucial in understanding and appreciating their world. Throughout a teaching and learning process that is focused on practical activities and exploring meaning through visual context, art education is believed to able to challenge the creative thinking because all activities are conducted based on the process of problem solving and decision making in producing the artwork. Art education is highly involved with creativity especially in defining the quality and the form of artwork. The study based on the empirical explanation of creative process throughout the teaching and learning of art education, define that learning and teaching given highly impact in promoting and developing the creation of creativity among students. Some of the main aspects that contributed to the creation of creativity, are the learning experience that students gain through studio learning process, factors and influences that supported and blocked their creativity, the understanding of choosing the right tools and equipments, the used of medium and techniques, the importance of conducive learning environment, the need of doing references and information gathering from various sources in the process of defining, creating meaning, and producing quality form of artwork.
(Ph.D.Dissert.)