Examining Female Students’ Artistic Production towards the Teaching of Visual Culture: Exploratory Study in Selected Female Colleges of Education in Ashanti Region, Ghana

The paper delved on how tutors of Arts education can meticulously assist learners comprehend imagery and text as regards how the virtual world is manipulated. The synopsis being emphasized that tutors of Arts education ought to appreciate that consumption remains the indispensable basis of the social order of teaching and learning in the current curriculum and visual culture in Colleges of Education in Ghana. Through the tutelage offered to learners to better appreciate the processes and products associated with visual culture, we imbibe in these learners, clarity of how imagined and constructed the world represents, leading to a better articulation of the learners’ ambitions through evolving technologies. Qualitative research technique was adopted for the study in the form of battery of test (questionnaire) administered observation and interview guide. Simple random sampling technique was used to select two Colleges of Education in Ashanti region, thus Agogo Presbyterian Women’s College of Education and St. Louis College of Education. The article found significant association between female students’ artistic production and the teaching of visual culture in the selected Colleges of Education and recommended that Arts Tutors in Colleges of Education should prioritize students’ artistic production even though there are associated challenges such as low patronage of the programme, inadequate studios as well as low esteem towards Visual Arts education. Accordingly, the authors’ remarks on artistic production and visual culture was that “As long as academicians remain astute, there is the need to restrict our precious time debating on the structural deficit of curriculum and instead focus more on its meanings; we would concentrate less on state limited guidelines and more on the interconnectedness of the local and global communities ; we would be less motivated as regards the technical attributes of art and focus more on the fundamental tenets of art ;and more importantly, we would harness educational scarce resources from teaching students what we were taught and more on what they should rather know.