Abstract:
The objective of this research aimed to study the teaching model of experts in art history in a course of higher education, which the in-depth interview technique was used for the data collection. The samples of this research study were chosen by employing the purposive sampling method to collect the group of specialists in 3 fields: Thai art history, Eastern art history, and Western art history, who are the instructors in the public universities that offers these 3 areas courses in art history in their academic programs. From 17 work samples, the in-depth interview technique was utilized to explore about the model of teaching art history in 5 categories including 1) the teaching objectives, 2) the contents of teaching, 3) the methods of instruction 4) the instructional media, 5) the measurement and evaluation. The data analysis would be gathered from the frequency, percentage, and consensus conclusion about the types of expert teaching in art history. The result showed that 1) the teaching objective allowed the students to gain knowledge, understand the techniques, methods, concepts and forms of art and realize the value of folk wisdom. Students developed research skills and analyzed reasonably, 2) the contents of teaching should cover the source, pattern and influence on change of generation. The sources of information use were referred from text books, books, academic articles and field works both in Thailand and abroad, 3) the methods of instruction integrated lecture, discussion and self-study which allowed the students to get the ideas, analysis, and conclusion reasonably and study from the actual location with presentation, 4) according to the instructional media, the presentation, photographs of actual location, documents, academic texts, or even internet references instructed by the instructors might not be as effective as to arrange the field work trip for the students to learn from the actual sites, 5) for the measurement and evaluation, the cognitive domain employed both objective test and subjective test. Secondly, the psychomotor domain applied report and self-study. Finally, utilizing the affective domain, the students can be able to analyze reasonably and discuss together in class. The style of teaching art history also depends on the purpose of art education in which can be divided into 3 areas: theory artistic, art education, and technical creativity. For recommendations from this study, the method of instruction should not be a rote method but should allow the students with self-study to express their own ideas and accept other different opinions from discussion 2) the instructors must be attentive to their teachings, prompt for academic advises, responsible, and always be awaken to the updated news, research, and study of art history. instructor, provide experience and technical advice, highly responsible and always update news and art history research.