Fumiko Takahashi

The Educational Effects of Portfolios that Incorporate ‘Drawings of Impressions: The Utilization of “Artistic Knowledge” in Teacher Training’

Fumiko Takahashi – Tokyo Future University, Japan

Abstract:

The aim of this presentation is to take the drawings of impressions in the portfolios (artistic expressions that interpret emotion-based impressions in terms of colour and form) as a means of developing the expressive skills of the students of children’s art majoring in childcare and education. Based on the content analysis of the drawings of impressions, the events that led to them were carefully examined in five categories: ‘Category 1: Sensitivity to learning’, ‘Category 2: Experience’, ‘Category 3: Reconstruction’, ‘Category 4: Materials’ and ‘Category 5: Reproducibility’. The tendency was for about one-third of the works to be sensitively ‘sensing learning’, followed by ‘materials’, ‘experience’, ‘reconstructions’ and ‘experiences’. In particular, the highly expressive group of works at level 3 had excellent expressions from the sensible starting points of typologies 1, 2 and 3. This typology is concerned with the perception of layered experiences, from the visual elements on the surface to the internal elements of sensation and emotion. The interest of the students as learners was considered to be attributed to which level of stratification the interest was strongest. In particular, from the perspective of the ABR, the combination and emphasis and the strong expression of its sensitivities showed an improvement in the students’ ability to connect the formative aspects of the dynamic. Artistic knowledge is a way of seeing and thinking based on the sensible facts specific to art that separate the ‘unknowable’. The facts of the students’ activities demonstrated that art is one way of interpreting and expressing the world, including the world of emotions, and that its methods are deeply connected to images that do not fit into a mere thing-making method.