Faculty of Management and Information Sciences

Permanent URI for this community

http://repository.uop.edu.pk/123456789/148

Browse

Browsing Faculty of Management and Information Sciences by Author "Supervisor Prof. Dr. Syed Farhana Jehangir"

Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
  • No Thumbnail Available
    Item
    ART EDUCATION A CONTRIBUTORY FACTOR IN ENHANCEMENT OF PROBLEM SOLVING ABILITY
    (College of Home Economics, University Of Peshawar., 2014) Rabia Chishti; Supervisor Prof. Dr. Syed Farhana Jehangir
    This study provides a baseline analysis of the extent to which the elementary education system in Pakistan is capable of enhancing or inhibiting children’s creativity. The present study was designed to examine the impact of elementary visual art in enhancing problem solving ability of children. The primary aim was to determine the relationship between visual art and problem solving ability among students. The predictive relationship between these variables was studied among elementary school children and young college students. For this purpose, the study utilized a quantitative approach to measure the difference in problem solving ability between art students vs. non-art students. Further, the study examined the role of two visual art instructional pedagogies: student-centered and teacher centered to evaluate their impact on the two thinking types, i.e., convergent thinking and divergent thinking along with the problem solving performance of the participants. The research encompassed two interconnected studies. Study I was a retrospective study concentrating on the long term effects of elementary visual art at the age of young-adult. While study II was conducted in the present scenario of education being practiced at the elementary school level in Peshawar. The two studies were carried out in further two Phases. Phase I consisted of two stages: stage I dealt with item selection and try out of scales to see if the instruments were understandable by Pakistani sample, whereas Stage II dealt with the determination of validity and reliability estimates of all the instruments used in current research. The instruments finalized in Phase-I were administered in Phase II on two independent samples, i.e., 150 college students from the National College of Arts, Lahore and Rawalpindi and 180 students across the elementary schools of Peshawar, KP to verify the study hypotheses. The Raven’s Standard Progressive Matrices, Wallach & Kogan’s Creative thinking Tests and Problem Solving Ability Test were administered to measure the participants’ convergent thinking, divergent thinking and problem solving ability respectivily.