The Development of Art- Based Learning to Enhance Creative Thinking of Secondary Students

Abstract

The development of art-based learning to enhance the creative thinking of secondary students. The purposes of this research were to 1) study the creative thinking of secondary students before and after learning by the art-based learning, and 2) study the opinion towards the art-based learning of secondary students. The participants in this research consisted of 25 students in Panyapiwat Institute of Management Demonstration School selected by using purposive sampling. Research instruments included three parts: 1) the art-based learning lesson plan 2) the creative thinking assessment and 3) the student opinion questionnaire. The statistical analysis performed in this research were mean, standard deviation and content analysis.

The research findings were as follows: 1) the creative thinking of secondary students before and after learning by art-based learning was at the highest level in overall (𝑥̅ = 4.73, S.D. = 0.57). 2) the opinion of secondary students towards art-based learning in was generally at high level (𝑥̅ = 4.38, S.D. = 0.70).