Farooque Ali

Dissertation Abstract

HOW DOES LOCAL COMMUNITIES STUDENTS RESPOND TO AN ART AND SCIENCE INTEGRATION WORKSHOP/PROJECT? AND HOW ART EDUCATION CAN FACILITATE TEACHERS TO CONDUCT THEIR RESPECTIVE CLASSES EFFECTIVELY?

Farooque Ali Chandio

This study, How does local communities students respond to an art and Science Integration workshop/project? And How art education can facilitate teachers to conduct their respective classes effectively? Explore the relationship between teaching and learning. It aims to address the challenges that art educator’s faced in the classroom environment of Pakistan, where learning art was not as important as other disciplines.

Through this researched I had explored' art integration' as a new method of teaching and learning. This studied had been conducted under the action researched method with grade 7 th at the Gwadar Development Authority (GDA) public higher secondary school Gwadar Balochistan. Art integrated lesson plans were developed and implemented keeping in mind the learning objectives of each integrating subject. Data was collected through observation, video and photography documentation, feedback forms, Teacher interview and assessment rubrics. Then I analyze these frameworks through the theoretical framework I found in the existing literature on art integration and through the 4C’s lens of critical thinking, creativity, collaboration and communication.

Through the results of the studied, this researched aims to explore importance of art integration because art integration enhances skills of others subjects, especially teaching approaches of teachers and students’ talents and creativity. Besides, others subjects’ teachers were supposed to faced so many challenges; for its better improvement and enlightenment, application of art integration could necessarily became the most important factor and instrument so that the students and teachers should be well-furnished and well creative.