A Study on Art Education Program for Activating the Sustainable Design Education: Focused on Global E-waste Issue in Art Education

Contemporary society is struggling with the fact that the most prevalent electronic gadgets, such as mobile phones, other communication devices, game consoles and PC, have a short lifespan. Not long after consumers buy one device, they anticipate the release of the next device with newer features. Rapid new trend in electronic devices has lead to consumers’ over-consumption, which results in a short device lifespan and produces profuse e-waste. This fast circulation of production and consumption has caused serious environmental and economic impacts on modern society. Because today’s students will be the economy’s driving force in the near future, schools must encourage students to consider how their short usage of electric gadget affects the biosphere. To achieve goals of study, the research objectives are verified about the effectiveness of education by education experts after education program have developed a training program for sustainable consumption that can be used in a secondary school art curriculum while meeting schoolmates property back. As a result of study, it is verified that middle school students who participated in this program have higher educational effect for sustainable consumption resulting from the awareness of the rapid life cycle of electronic products throughout this education program. This study verifies the effectiveness of this program for sustainable consumption through a class workshop. It is verified that secondary school students in this study was enhanced on creative problem solving resulting from the awareness of the rapid life cycle of electronic products throughout this education program. It has a limitation to the effectiveness of the various approaches for analysis before and after the application program. It is suggested that the future study may clarify affective elements such as attitudes, values for sustainable consumption by applying a variety of subjects, students in the art education program, as well as sustainable design curriculum for future research. This research is distinctive for the fact that it applies students in secondary school and ways that these findings can improve teaching methods and students’understanding in order to extract durable design point. And it can be contributed to reduce consumption after being motivated to reflect the relationship between them and the environment critically and creatively. This research could engage not only students’moral and ethical judgments but also their emotional engagement with objects for the environment by comparing their memorable things.