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Student Perceptions of the Importance of Art Contents and Activitis in Schools of General Education of Vocational Schools in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina

The authors deal with the position of visual arts in the context of general education in vocational schools and grammar schools, and the relationship of art to other subjects in general education. The aim was to examine how students in higher secondary education estimate the importance of visual arts subjects for the acquisition of general knowledge and the importance of visual arts for their future profession. The participants (N=605) were students in the third year of higher secondary education. A questionnaire comprising 50 dependent variables was constructed for the purpose of this research. Although the participants in the sample did not attach importance to visual arts for their future professions, they assessed that during their education, activities that necessitated working with their hands helped them in developing their memorization skills and the ability to learn other subjects. Type of school, as a statistically significant predictor, indicated that vocational school students attach more importance to visual arts for their future professions than did their peers in grammar schools. Students attached least importance to visual arts when performing foreign language tasks, and most importance for the subject Technical Education. The results highlight the need to give more importance and more time to visual arts in the curricula for generalist and vocational schools.

visual arts ; general education ; educational neurosciences ; educational sciences ; brain development

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