An Investigation of the Thinking-style Profiles of Fine Arts Education Department Students

Goal of this study was to identify thinking-style profiles of the Fine Arts Education Department students and investigation of the relationship between students’ thinking-styles and their academic branches (music and painting-arts education). Survey method has been used in the study and relevant literature was investigated through the scanning method. Study workgroup consisted of 168 students from Fine Arts Education Department of Nigde University (Music and Painting Teacher candidates). Thinking Styles Scalar developed by Sternberg and Wagner (1992), and adapted by Sünbül (2004) to Turkish with reliability validation has been used as data collection tool. According to the findings, it has been determined that Fine Arts Education Students possessed mostly subjective thinking style. Again on the basis of findings, it was seen that in all dimensions of the scalar there existed only one meaningful difference in terms of subjective thinking style relationship to students’ branches, and no other meaningful difference was identified in other twelve dimensions of the scalar.