ZİHİN ENGELLİ ÖĞRENCİLER VE GENEL EĞİTİMDEKİ AKRAN GRUPLARININ (14 YAŞ) DOKU OLUŞTURMAYA YÖNELİK BECERİLERİNİN İNCELENMESİ.

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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]