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The aim of this study was to explain the essence and the quality of artistic education from the perspective of Roy Baskar's critical realism integrated approach. To this end, the following two questions were investigated: 1) what is the integrated approach to art? 2) How artistic education can be implemented from the integrated perspective? These questions were answered through analytical and inferential method. Regarding the first research question, the results of the study indicated that the integrated approach to art according to Baskar's approach means field and interdisciplinary applications. That is, designing the course along the lines of the art's approach to goals, rules and principles, and the applications which indicate the relationship between art course and other disciplines, fields and different life dimensions. Therefore, art course should pay attention to the inherent features of art, the rules for creating a work of art, and the instruction of individual, moral, religious, and social applications of art. Regarding the second research question, the findings suggested that it is necessary to reinvestigate the main components of education such as the teacher, the student, materials, and the methods of evaluation according to the integrated approach. The teacher should be familiar with art philosophy, art applications, and the rules for creating a work of art. The student should be encouraged to create a work of art based on the rules and principles of art. The content should be centered on the fundamental, mediatory, and subsidiary levels. And, the evaluation should be based on the mastery of these levels by students.
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