Attitudes of primary school teachers about teaching and learning art in a primary school

Abstract

Teaching Art is an important factor in the whole development of a student, particularly nowadays, which is marked by global presence of visual communication. Despite modernization of art-pedagogical theory, in real school praxis, there is still an old approach to teaching and learning Art. The aim of the research is to point at the fact in which extent teachers use traditional, i.e. contemporary teaching strategies, forms and methods of work in organizing and realizing teaching Art. The sample included 109 primary school teachers in the area of the city of Rijeka (Croatia). The questionnaire included questions of the closed type. Results of the research confirmed that in the school praxis, there are still steady approaches to teaching Art. This is why we need initial education of teachers to be enriched by professional knowledge and praxis from the field of Art Teaching Methodology and organize frequent professional development for the purpose of achieving satisfactory quality of work of teachers in this field.