An Interactive Approach to Learning and Teaching in Visual Arts Education
Keywords:
art creativity, general and specific (visual arts) teaching methods, interactive teaching and learning, visual arts abilities and skills, visual arts knowledge, teaching strategies
Abstract
The present research focuses on modernising the approach to learning and teaching the visual arts in teaching practice, as well as examining the performance of an interactive approach to learning and teaching in visual arts classes with the use of a combination of general and specific (visual arts) teaching methods. The study uses quantitative analysis of data on the basis of results obtained from a pedagogical experiment. The subjects of the research were 285 second- and fourth-grade students from four primary schools in the city of Rijeka, Croatia. Paintings made by the students in the initial and final stage of the pedagogical experiment were evaluated. The research results confirmed the hypotheses about the positive effect of interactive approaches to learning and teaching on the following variables: (1) knowledge and understanding of visual arts terms, (2) abilities and skills in the use of art materials and techniques within the framework of planned painting tasks, and (3) creativity in solving visual arts problems. The research results can help shape an optimised model for the planning and performance of visual arts education, and provide guidelines for planning professional development and the further professional education of teachers, with the aim of establishing more efficient learning and teaching of the visual arts in primary school.
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Sawyer, R. K. (2004). Creative teaching: Collaborative discussion as disciplined improvisation. Educational researcher, 33(2), 12-20.
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Tomljenović, Z., & Novaković, S. (2013). MiÅ¡ljenja uÄitelja razredne nastave o uÄenju i pouÄavanju likovne kulture u osnovnoj Å¡koli [Classroom teachers’ opinions on learning and teaching of visual arts in elementary school]. Inovacije u nastavi, 27(1), 31-41.
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engineering education, 18(3), 275-284.
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Published
2015-09-30
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Tomljenović, Z. (2015). An Interactive Approach to Learning and Teaching in Visual Arts Education. Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 5(3), 73–93. https://doi.org/10.26529/cepsj.129
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