Naslov
Competence of Class Teachers in the Visual Arts Area

Autori
Tomljenović, Zlata ; Novaković, Svetlana

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
Governing Educational Spaces ; Knowledge, Teaching, and Learning in Transition / - , 2014

Skup
The XXVI CESE Conference "Governing Educational Spaces ; Knowledge, Teaching, and Learning in Transition"

Mjesto i datum
Freiburg, Njemačka, 10.06.2014. - 13.06.2014

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
competence; specific competences; teachers; art education; professional training

Sažetak
Today’s formal education and professional teachers' growth are directed towards gaining competences which overcome the obsolete pedagogic paradigm about teaching as information transfer. In fact, competencies which teachers should have encompass significantly more complex knowledge and abilities, ones which relate to quick and efficient adjustment to dynamic and unpredictable teaching situations, students' inclusion in independent and active work, use of new technologies, the wholesome development of student's personality promotion. In art education, specific competencies pertain to having knowledge from theory and praxis of art and of art pedagogy as well, knowing the specificity of teaching process execution, knowing the purpose, goals and tasks of art as a school subject, the ability to recognise and understand student's individual and art particularities and their ways of learning, the ability of creative adjustment of one's own knowledge and capacities to new situations. Modern art education puts numerous new tasks in front of teachers, the ones they can't be fully prepared for during their formal education, although the existing subjects from the artistic area on faculties of teacher education in Croatia, with their programmes' conceptions, try to come close to satisfying the students' needs. So, it is important that current and future teachers be aware of the need for continuous betterment, i.e. lifelong learning. The research goal was to examine opinions of students of graduate teacher studies and class teachers about the importance of certain competences in the artistic area, as well as the level of achieving the stated competencies during studies. The frequency of teachers attending various forms of professional training in the artistic area was also examined. The research included 100 students of the faculty of teacher education in Croatia and 100 class teachers employed in Croatian primary schools. The data was gathered with the use of the questionnaire, and processed on the level of descriptive and inference statistics. The research has shown the existence of statistically significant difference between the teachers' self-assessment about the importance of certain competences in the artistic area, and the self-assessment of having these competences, both with students of the faculty of teacher education and class teachers. The results also have shown the insufficient presence of professional training in the artistic field. The research was implemented with the goal of establishing the existing state, in regards to the students' and teachers' competencies in the area of art education.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Pedagogija

POVEZANOST RADA