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2nd International Conference on Education and Social Sciences (INTCESS), İstanbul, Turkey, 2 - 04 February 2015, pp.733-743
Visual culture includes various fields including; television, sculpture, photography, films, oil paintings,gardens, buildings, hand crafts, toys, advertisements, jewelry, maps, web pages, city landscapes and so on. Therefore, visual culture, is a human experience that has never been (Mirzoeff, 1999) and increasing in a visual and visualized way and is comprehensive respectably. According to Barnard (2002), everything that has been given a functional, communicative and/or an aesthetic apprehension, that is man-made, produced or interpreted is included in the definition of visual culture. According to the pioneer advocate of visual culture Paul Duncum (2002) meaning in today's world is produced in an interactive mean such as visual areas, visual and popular objects, music, sound effects, and pictures and so on. As well as looking at popular elements, the way we look at things is important too. It is undoubtedly more important to look at these objects for an individual who is a candidate to be an art teacher and who are being educated in universities' fine art departments compared to individuals who are not receiving any training on this matter. It is known that changing a culture that is created within a society permanently will take a long time and it will be possible throughout generations. It will only be possible to change the visual culture perception in a society through training students in fine arts subjects by related teachers in