What is it about?

In this study, PBL approach was implemented university students to examine the effects of the PBL approach on creative thinking and critical thinking during one semester.

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Why is it important?

The creative and critical thinking are very important skills for visual arts education students, especially in the artwork production process. From this perspective, this study was the first study to examine the PBL approach effect on creative and critical thinking of visual arts education students in higher education level. Therefore, the study findings will be very helpful in terms of the visual arts education field in terms of artwork production process and implementation the PBL approach in different education disciplines beyond the visual arts education.

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By this study, I witnessed that non-routine problem solving process promote students' creative thinking when this problem was related to a real world problem. This is an important finding to develop and plan new learning activities in future education. Also, I witnessed that open structures such as Brainstorming in the learning lead to promote students to think creatively.

Associate Professor Kani Ulger
Cumhuriyet Universitesi

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This page is a summary of: The Effect of Problem-Based Learning on the Creative Thinking and Critical Thinking Disposition of Students in Visual Arts Education, Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning, March 2018, Purdue University (bepress),
DOI: 10.7771/1541-5015.1649.
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