The Recycling Concept in Art Education at Sultan Qaboos Universi-ty

Regarding the overall economic characteristics and innovation levels of developed countries.  Projects on wastes which include the three ‘Rs’ – reduce, re-use and recycle – as part of a waste reduction strategy are being applied in education to progress the efficiency of training students in this field and thus generate a collaboration between academia and production. Art crafts created from recycled materials as part of the economy are relatively new. It requires a new teaching methodology to allow the implementation of the recycling concept in the creation of new artistic products.  This can be carried out by activating the students' skills to be effective in solving problems solving, thinking creatively, gaining aesthetic value, self-evaluating and self-recognition in order to keep up the innovations of the age. This study establishes the attempt conducted in the art education department at Sultan Qaboos University to examine the use of waste materials in teaching the course of Experiment with Different Materials. The research adopted the exploratory and descriptive research methods where the created designs were analyzed from the aesthetically and practicality points of view. Results indicated differences in the student performance when recycling the waste products. This is because the art application become more practical, interactive, interesting and real in creating aesthetic recycled products. As a result, this research paper introduced how to educate the future generation how to make recycled artistic products, regarding the recovering and reusing waste products from household use, and thereby reducing their burden on the environment.