Evaluation Of Sculpture Education Programs in the Light Of Technological Developments

Abstract

Technological developments influence the educational fields as well as all areas of life, play an important role in giving direction to the flow of the education. In general, this radical innovations in technology affects education/art education, in particular they affect the understanding of traditional material and application methods in sculpture education. The opportunities offered by the computer technologies as well as electric and pneumatic tools which replace traditional instruments to the field of sculpture deepen the gap between contemporary methods and traditional education methods. While traditional method and techniques are used in sculpture education on the one hand, on the other hand a workshop hardware that is compatible with today’s technology and an education program developed in line with that hardware are needed. How much the institutions giving statue education renew their educational programs with the developing technology and how they response to these developments are seen as a problem. This paradoxical situation is not only sculptors’ problem but it is also a problem/question for the institutions and academic staffs giving sculpture education. The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of the usage of technology in sculpture education era on the education, to contribute by proposing what kind of preparation should be carried out in terms of having the students earn the technology usage in educational curriculum.