Research Article
Visual Culture Education, Creative Cognition, and Visual Symbolization Skills in Early Children’s Learning
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.19-9-2023.2340550, author={Mohamad Helmi Ismail and Nurul Hidayah and Ririn Despriliani and Serin Ellsa Tasya}, title={Visual Culture Education, Creative Cognition, and Visual Symbolization Skills in Early Children’s Learning}, proceedings={Proceedings of the 8th Annual International Seminar on Transformative Education and Educational Leadership, AISTEEL 2023, 19 September 2023, Medan, North Sumatera Province, Indonesia}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={AISTEEL}, year={2023}, month={12}, keywords={visual culture arts education visual symbolization skills creative cognition early childhood education}, doi={10.4108/eai.19-9-2023.2340550} }- Mohamad Helmi Ismail
Nurul Hidayah
Ririn Despriliani
Serin Ellsa Tasya
Year: 2023
Visual Culture Education, Creative Cognition, and Visual Symbolization Skills in Early Children’s Learning
AISTEEL
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.19-9-2023.2340550
Abstract
The visual culture-based arts education (VCAE) is presumably able to build children’s awareness of socio-political aspect in visual images, altering the inappropriate visual arts integration practices, symbolic thinking, and creativity. However, there is not enough evidence to claim its relevance in the Kindergarten setting. This research is conducted to study the VCAE possibility in the K-2 and its relations with the children’s creative cognition and visual symbolic skills. Using the integrative literature review method, this research is synthesize various data collected by opportunistic sampling technique and analyze it thematically. The study finds that VCAE only works in elementary school and above even though it resembles the culturally relevant approach that commonly used in Kindergarten. Conceptually, VCAE are having connections with the visual symbolic thinking and the creative cognitive skills. In conclusion, VCAE is a promising concept that needs to be further explored to test its sufficiency in the K-2 setting.