Integrating Ethnic Craft Skills into the Fine Arts Pedagogy at Chinese Higher Vocational Institutions in Guizhou Province


  •  Yang Yuling    
  •  Saifon Songsiengchai    
  •  Shen Yi    

Abstract

This study aims 1. To explore the roles of teachers, students, and inheritors in integrating Guizhou ethnic craft skills into vocational art education, 2. To investigate the contributions of theoretical cognition, practical ability, and innovative development to improving the integration of Guizhou ethnic craft skills into fine arts education. The quantitative data showed that teachers, students and, inheritors, pedagogy-based theoretical cognition, practical ability, and innovative development all had a significant impact on the integration of ethnic skills into the teaching and learning of art education in higher vocational colleges and universities in Guizhou, with practical ability being a key issue in the integration of ethnic skills into the teaching and learning practice of higher vocational art education. The results of the study presented that 1) the significant positive correlations with the influence of the inheritor are, in order of ranking, teaching practice with the integration of ethnic skills, teaching design with the integration of ethnic craft skills, cultural heritage with the integration of ethnic skills, skill mastery with the integration of ethnic skills, and teaching evaluation with the integration of ethnic skills, 2) the theoretical cognition, practical ability, and innovative development would have a significant positive influence on the integration of ethnic craft skills into the teaching practice of higher vocational art education.



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