Arts education and educating with arts

Abstract

This study examines arts education and educating with arts paradigmatically, especially raising environmental awareness through literature, by using examples from the book called Son Kuslar ('The Last Birds') written by one of the most important story writers of Turkish literature, Sait Faik Abasiyanik. It explains that environmental science can benefit from arts through the fact that arts cannot be isolated from sciences. It gives some suggestions on emphasizing the importance of using arts in the other branches of sciences towards children's and young peoples' education thereby setting this study as an example. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved