The Perception Of “Authenticity” Of Visual Arts Teacher Candidates

The uncertainty that is being shaped mutually with the changing meaning of art and work of art, is also reflected on the field of art education. The main objective of the research is to reveal the sense of authenticity of the teacher candidates of visual arts. Determining how the teacher candidates associate the concept of authenticity with life, art and art education and presenting their viewpoints to traditional, current and futurist art education approaches are the sub-objectives of the research. The research was performed by qualitative research phenomenology pattern. By the participation of six visual arts tearchers who experienced the process of searching directed to forms of expression in the workshop classes of main art and subsidiary art along with theoretical classes in the department of art teaching (esthetics, art criticism, art history etc.), profound interviews have been made about their studies that they “evaluated to be authentic”.As a result of thematic analysis done within the scope of the research, the themes of uniqueness, experience, affirmation and being open to possibilities have been dwelled on.