The Effect of the Art Education in the Protection of Turkish Traditional Cultural Inheritance (original) (raw)

Turkish Culture covers all the countries which Turk groups have moved, settled, established a state, hold and ruled. It is also the common name of the culture that has been made up with the appreciations, own culture and own language through the ages by the communities that have maintained their traditional life in Anatolia. This culture has been extended by the feelings, opinions and appreciations of the people and it has been shaped by the reality of human and nature. The human groups which moved to Anatolia carried along their own belief, customs, traditions, arts nine hundreds years ago. Some of them were kept in the original way and some of them were taken a new shape with the new formations in Anatolian Culture. Turkish Culture left its own mark on the other cultures by changing them in its own structure. The Folk Cultures determine the nation's national identity and create their own tradition naturally by taking the common acceptances of the present society they are created in. Art education is the whole education activities to express the emotions, ideas and observation of the people and raise his/her creativity and ability to an esthetic level. Within the context of General education, Art Education is an education area that aims to help a person have an aesthetic personality by using techniques and rules of the arts. In the Art Education process, perception, getting information, thinking, designing, commenting, expressing and criticizing abilities are gained by using the arts language in terms of aesthetic principles. In this study the motives, concept designs and their applications of undergraduate and post graduate students of hand-craft department of Seljuk University Career Education Faculty which belong to Turkish Traditional Culture have been introduced. The aim of the study is to emphasize that the use of traditional motives and concepts in design, theory and pedagogy helps to design of original productions. If a person is given a good visual information, he/she will have a better coordination between the production and the ideas. The person makes quality evaluation in the design that he produces by discussing the importance of the gained interpretation and the meaning of the defined concept. In the study, supportive offers for future and present studies have been made by introducing different production group designed in tradition way which spread them to international fields.