THE EFFECTS OF VISUAL ARTS EDUCATION ON STUDENTSz VIOLENT BEHAVIOURS IN FINE ARTS AND SPORTS HIGH SCHOOLSz PAINTING DEPARTMENTS AND GENERAL HIGH SCHOOLS


Thesis Type: Doctorate

Institution Of The Thesis: Gazi University, Eğitim Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Turkey

Approval Date: 2011

Thesis Language: Turkish

Student: Orhan TAŞKESEN

Supervisor: ALEV KURU

Abstract:

The purpose of the study is to determine whether there is a significant difference among the violence trends, aggression and violent behavior frequencies of the students of the Department of Painting in Fine Arts High School, and general high schools' students taking painting lessons (optional), students not taking painting lessons. For this purpose, this is a study tested by determining the frequency scores of students' violence tendency, aggression and violent behavior as the dependent variables, and school type and status of receiving education in visual art as the independent variables. The sample of this study consisted of 1544 students, from the existing seven regions of Turkey's (Ankara, Antalya, Bursa, Erzurum, Gaziantep, Izmir, Trabzon) selected 7 Fine Picture Arts and Sports College High School and 7 General High Schools. Random Sampling was used in the selection of the sample. During the research data collection process, Violent Behaviour Frequency Scale, developed by the researcher, was used by using the Aggression Scale (Tuzgöl, 1998), Violence Tendency Scale (Göka, Bayat, Türkçapar, 1995) and Violence Behavior Scale (Farrell, Meyer, 1997)) Disease Control and Prevention Center Youth Risk Screening Program data base consequences. SPSS 15:00 program was used for analysis of the data. In the study, one-way analysis of variance, Pearson Product Moment Correlation statistics technics were used. In addition, Kruskal-Wallis and Mann-Whitney U test was used for the evaluation of nonparametric data. At the end of the study, it has been found that tends to be a strong correlation between students' the scores of aggression, and violence tendency and frequencies. It has also been found that there exists to be significant difference between students' both aggression and violence tendency, attending Painting Department of Fine Arts, and Sports High Schools and General High Schools. The frequency of violent behavior between these two groups of students showed that there was no significant difference. In the analysis according to the visual art studying circumstances, it has been found that there is a significant difference in both aggression and violence tendency scores of students of Painting Department of Fine Arts, and Sports High Schools and the scores of students of General High Schools who can't take visual arts and painting course or who take visual art education course (elective), also it has beeen found that there is no significant level of differentiation in the scores of violent behavior frequency. According to the class levels, it has beeen found that there is significant level of differentiation in the scores of aggression and there is no significant level of differentiation in the scores of violent behavior frequency of the students in the Painting Department of Fine Arts, and Sports High School. Still, according to the sex it has been found that there is significant difference in violence tendency, aggression and violent behavior frequency of the students in the Painting Department of Fine Arts, and Sports High School.