Şehir Planlama Temel Tasarım Eğitiminde Öğrenci Kültürel Birikimi ve Formasyonu Analizi: Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi Örneği

Abstract

Basic design education is the basic training provided in the education of professionals whose job will be to design technically sound, liveable spaces and consequently society. This education, founded on knowledge and socio-cultural experience, is of vital importance. It forms the student's identity and is used at all stages of the profession. However, there are few academic studies that seek to determine the relationship between design education and the students' previous education, family backgrounds, fields of interest and past experience. In view of this gap in the literature, the present article considers the cultural knowledge and education of basic design students in conjunction with their academic performance and observations of their classes.The article argues that, in basic design education in urban planning, there is a relationship between the students' cultural backgrounds and previous education and the development of their design-oriented thinking and creativity, and that this can be demonstrated with reference to various specific factors. The role of students' identities in the development of their design thinking and creative thinking, and in their academic performance, was examined for a given sample of students with the help of a questionnaire. The findings are discussed from a critical perspective.