期刊名称：Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal
印刷版ISSN：1855-9719
电子版ISSN：2232-2647
出版年度：2015
卷号：5
期号：3
页码：73-93
出版社：University of Ljubljana
摘要：The present research focuses on modernising the approach to learningand teaching the visual arts in teaching practice, as well as examiningthe performance of an interactive approach to learning and teaching invisual arts classes with the use of a combination of general and specific(visual arts) teaching methods. The study uses quantitative analysis ofdata on the basis of results obtained from a pedagogical experiment.The subjects of the research were 285 second- and fourth-grade studentsfrom four primary schools in the city of Rijeka, Croatia. Paintingsmade by the students in the initial and final stage of the pedagogicalexperiment were evaluated. The research results confirmed the hypothesesabout the positive effect of interactive approaches to learning andteaching on the following variables: (1) knowledge and understandingof visual arts terms, (2) abilities and skills in the use of art materialsand techniques within the framework of planned painting tasks, and (3)creativity in solving visual arts problems. The research results can helpshape an optimised model for the planning and performance of visualarts education, and provide guidelines for planning professional developmentand the further professional education of teachers, with the aimof establishing more efficient learning and teaching of the visual arts inprimary school.
关键词：art creativity; general and specific (visual arts) teaching;methods; interactive teaching and learning; visual arts abilities and;skills; visual arts knowledge; teaching strategies
