Visual thinking and its relationship to aesthetic awareness among students of the Department of Art Education in the subject of pictorial construction.

Abstract

 Summary of research

Visual thinking and its relation to aesthetic awareness among students of the Department of Art Education in the material of photographic construction

The research was aimed at:

1-Identify the level of visual thinking of the students of the Department of art Education in the material of photographic construction.

2- Identify the level of aesthetic awareness among the students of the Department of art Education in the material of photographic construction.

3- Finding the relationship between visual thinking and aesthetic taste among students of the Department of Art Education in the material of photographic construction.  The research was applied to a sample of students of the University of Mustansiriya/ Department of art Education third stage for the academic year 2024-2025 in the subject of photographic construction.  It also included - the concept of visual thinking and its most important tools for learners, aesthetic awareness and applications of visual thinking in the visual creation and was selected a random sample of the research community amounted to (100) students from the Department of Art Education as a basic sample for the application.

The researchers adopted the descriptive-relational approach to designing research procedures and  designed two research tools:

1-Visual Thinking Test: Be of (4) questions that included a set of paragraphs, namely (50) paragraph to measure the level of visual thinking in students of the Department of art Education/ College of Basic Education/ University of Mustansiriya.

2-Measure of Aesthetic awareness: The scale is in its final form of (15) paragraphs and its alternatives are determined by a five-point scale to measure each paragraph of it in a gradient of (always - often - rarely - never) and weights (5,4, 3,2, 1) respectively after extracting the indicators of honesty and stability.

The research reached the following results: Students of the Department of Art Education enjoyed a good level of visual thinking, a good level of aesthetic awareness, and that there is a functional correlation of the sample between the variables of visual thinking and aesthetic awareness, and it turns out that the relationship is a positive function relationship.

Accordingly, the researchers conclude the following:

1-The students of the Department of Art Education have a moral level in visual thinking, which indicates that art students are familiar with symbols and visual semantics that provide them with an intellectual reservoir that helps them to practice art works and express what is inside them through the material of graphic creation.

2-The students of the Department of Art Education enjoy a moral level in aesthetic awareness, which is due to their visual experience in reading the cryptographic and hidden symbols of the works of art and their cognitive balance and their orientations through their responses to them.

3-There is a correlation between visual thinking and aesthetic awareness among students of the Department of Art Education.

The researchers made several recommendations and suggestions.