Abstract
Participatory learning is known as a form of teaching method that focuses on the learner, deemed suitable for learners with intellectual disabilities as it encourages engagement, attention, and flexibility in nurturing creativity, critical thinking, and awareness as a part of their cognitive ability. This mental ability can be sharpened through practice that involves the repetition process of observation, recognize, remembering, and interpreting, which interestingly can be found in cartoonization practice, as it is the practice of reconstructing a real-life image into a cartoon-like representation. The purpose of this research is to study the use of teaching cartoonization for intellectual disabilities learners in a participatory learning environment by analyzing the learner’s drawing process and visual perspectives, such as how they receive and process information, identify, comprehend, and define the distinctive features of a person to finally execute it in a form of a painting. Participatory Learning and Action (PLA) and observation are used in this research with 13 young adults with intellectual disabilities, aged 25-30, as the main subject. The final results show that teaching cartoonization in the participatory learning environment tends to be effective in empowering their cognitive ability due to its enjoyability, attentive communication, and meaningful connection between the tutor and learners as they tend to be more patient in observing the real-life portrait to determine which unique characteristic they are going to maintain and which they can explore. Findings also suggest that they tend to understand instructions more by using a straight forward visual examples.
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Christina Flora, Universitas Multimedia Nusantara, Indonesia
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Conference: KAMC2024
Stream: Arts Practices
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Flora C. (2024) Cartoonization Practices: The Visual Perspective of Learners With Intellectual Disabilities in a Participatory Learning Environment ISSN: 2436-0503 – The Kyoto Conference on Arts, Media & Culture 2024: Official Conference Proceedings (pp. 719-725) https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2436-0503.2024.61
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2436-0503.2024.61
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