Abstract
Investigation of the Skills of Mental Disabled Students and the Acran Groups in General Education (14 Years) for the Tissue Creation
One of the most important expressions reflecting the inner worlds of mentally retarded
individuals is the painting. Despite the fact, the researches to know about the artistic
skills of mentally retarded individuals are so limited. This study aims to figure out the
skill levels of the students in Special Education Implementation Centre (School) Grade-II,
Class 8 (14 age group, 8th Grade) with ‘tissue’ works among art elements, and obtained
results will be assessed by comparing with the peer groups (14 age group – 8th Grade)
in formal education schools to recognise the artistic skills of mentally retarded students.
The universe of the research is medium level mentally retarded 14 age group students and
the sample is seven students to be selected from Meram Şeker Secondary School Special
Education Implementation Centre, Grade-II students. The document analysis method
that is one of the qualitative research techniques is employed. Since the performance
evaluation forms which are prepared separately for both groups will measure the
educational acquisitions which are aimed by the Ministry of National Education (MNE),
they will also have the feature to measure the initials of the design, the research has a
distinctive significance.The most important result of this study is that while the students are successful by
achieving all the goals to be defined by MNE for themselves, they are not as successful as
their peers in formal education when their level of artistic skills are considered.
Keywords
Picture, Tissue, Mentally Handicapped, Visual Arts, Special Education
