The aim of this study is to compare the self-efficacy beliefs in problem posing of middle school mathematics teachers in Science and Art Centres and state schools. A descriptive research model was employed. The study was conducted with 187 teachers and "Teachers' Problem Posing Self-Efficacy Beliefs Inventory" (TPPBEI) was used. In the…

When educators started incorporating the letter A into the STEM acronym to form STEAM some science educators had reservations. Seen from a western, rationalistic way of knowing (Colucci-Gray et al. 2017, 23) the STEM community had detractors regarding the idea of integrating art into science. Hence, scientific language is often thought of as being…

Choice and autonomy are central tenets of interest-driven learning. Yet, in most studies on interest in school, students' choice and autonomy have been confined within the boundaries of the curriculum and the subject matter in question. This limits our understanding of how schools can support interest-driven learning as well as students' interest…

Painting is the most fundamental kind of art, and is one important part of creative practice in art courses. In typical painting classes, students paint a picture independently with only a few theoretical explanations and may lack authentic experience of the painting topic. It would therefore be meaningful to construct a new painting form to…

This article focuses on developing the idea process in visual art education by using digital peer feedback. In the school subject visual art, the visual idea process, e.g. when students sketch their ideas, is an important phase in a project. When an idea takes form, there is the possibility for considering the idea in a new way, for others to…

This article analyzes the current domestic middle school art education and education management. Today, with great efforts to improve the quality of education, our domestic art education has been included in the education sequence of the compulsory education system. However, there are still some shortcomings in middle school art education.…

The following article presents the results of research whose purpose was the analysis of the level of artistic creativity and fine arts development among eighth-grade students of different elementary schools in the northeastern part of Slovenia. We have monitored the level of artistic creativity and analysed the differences in fine arts creative…

This research is about bringing social justice art education into classrooms through the medium of video games and exploring the ways in which video game design can be a learning tool that can make contributions to and engage in social justice work. Drawing from a case-study research project with a small group of middle school students, through…

This study focuses on supporting the key competences of 6th graders using an empathy-centred approach in visual art classes. The research represents the third cycle of pedagogical action research conducted during a 35-academic-hour course with 70 middle school students aged 12-13 in an Estonian comprehensive school. The data were collected through…

Good learning devices greatly assist teachers in conveying the process of seeking knowledge to students. This study aimed to develop a STEAM-C (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathematics and Culture) integrated learning device in Masjid Kuno Taman, Indonesia to improve students' creative thinking skills. The learning devices included…

Content and language integrated learning (CLIL) involves teaching an additional language through the study of a subject, and teaching the subject through the medium of the new language. CLIL approaches to additional language acquisition are widely adopted and broadly successful, though some content-subjects may be better suited than others. The…

This study focuses on students' spatial relationships within the context of place-based education. The research was designed as a holistic single-case design and was conducted with 15 students aged 10-11, who were studying in the 5th grade at a middle school in Eskisehir, Turkey. Criterion sampling, one of the purposive sampling methods, was used…

Students' interest pathways are fashioned not only from existing educational resources and opportunities, but importantly also by extending beyond them. In this study, we conceptualise these extensions as productive deviations and engage in a comparative analysis of various productive deviations we have identified in our ethnographic study of…

Technological, Pedagogical, and Content Knowledge (TPACK) can collaborate with the Science Technology Engineering Art Mathematics (STEAM) approach. STEAM is also essential for students to improve their ability and skills to operate and produce science and technology-based products, supported by the TPACK abilities of educators to develop quality…

STEAM is a concept that is made up of the initials of the words science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics. The aim of this study is to determine the effect of STEAM-based teaching activities on students' lesson achievements and attitudes in secondary school Visual Arts lessons. The study was carried out in a private secondary school…