Art education and teacher role from student perspective

Isidora, Korać, Nikoleta, Gutvajn, Snežana, Mirkov

Kultura

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0023-5164

10.5937/kultura1756176K

http://scindeks.ceon.rs/article.aspx?query=ISSID%26and%2613605&page=0&so...

2017-2021/07/01/11:07:30

In this article we have been focused on studying the ways in which elementary school students experience art education and work of art teachers. We were interested in how students evaluate the difficulty and attraction of Art as a school subject, how much they are satisfied with the work of their art teachers and how much the work of their teachers has contributed to this subject becoming easier and more interesting to them. The sample covered 215 eighth grade students from different urban and rural elementary schools. For research purposes, a questionnaire was designed containing open­ended and close­ended questions. The research results indicate that the largest number of students evaluated art education as medium interesting and very easy, also showing that students think that the attraction and the level of difficulty of the subject itself depend a lot on the teacher. The attraction and the difficulty of the subject mostly depend on: the method of work on the curriculum, the method of work of the teacher and the diversity of tasks given to students. The results therefore suggest that the professional competences of an art teacher are the key factor in successful teaching.