Development of Instructional Materials from Local Resources for Art-Based Courses

The aim of the paper was to examine the use of instructional materials from local resources for art based courses at the tertiary level. The paper examined the concept of instructional materials and their production for instructional purposes for art based courses. Effort was made to review literature on the categorization of instructional materials from local materials and how they can be developed and produced for use to enhance effective learning. Introduction The production of Instructional materials had undergone several reviews and processes by experts from various fields. These experts have developed and produced in line with the needs of their area of specialization and the resources available to them in their locality. In the area of Arts and Humanities for instance, much problems 2 encountered from the use of appropriate Instructional materials for teaching and learning had being usually as a result of high cost of factory produced/imported materials, scarcity of such products in the country and above all irrelevancy of some of the materials to our social/cultural settings, which had always left our students wandering in abstract. Olumorin (2009) emphasized that it is when original materials are not available for use in teaching and learning, that other types and forms of instructional can be applied. Also, Abolade and Olumorin (2004) reported that most of the factory produced instructional materials for teaching art based courses are usually very scarce to come by and where they are within reach, they are usually very expensive to buy. Some of the factory produced/imported instructional materials have also been discovered to be concept-based on foreign ideas and culture. For instance, in learning alphabets at nursery/primary class, an imported chart with “A” for Apple, “B” for Ball, “C” for Cat and so on but a locally produced chart will reflect objects that can easily be seen in the child’s environment, for instance, “A” for Ant, “B” for Basket, “C” for Cutlass. It is against this background that the need to fashion out ways by which local resources can be used for developing instructional materials should be underscored. In this work, three major categories of mode of local production of instructional materials for art based courses was outlined based on the presentation of Ogunmilade (1984). The presentation was however improved upon to meet up with current use of material resources and methods as presented in figure 1 Locally sourced Instructional Materials