Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.15516/cje.v19i0.2684
Implementing Contents of Conservation and Protection of Cultural Landscape in Fine Art Classes
Robert Potočnik
; Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Ljubljana
Abstract
The quality of teaching is one of the fundamental competences of a fine art teacher. Teaching content should be comprehensively integrated according to each stage of pupil’s development; this also includes dealing with problems of preservation and protection of cultural landscape. A qualified, informed and responsible teacher who includes this content in the teaching process can, in the long term, contribute to students nourishing a more responsible attitude towards the existing architectural heritage, recognizing improper renovation of architectural heritage and contemporary architecture that does not respect the identity of the cultural landscape.
This paper deals with the problem of teachers’ attitudes and actions regarding the conservation and protection of cultural landscape; it studies the options of teacher training for teaching contents concerning the conservation and protection of cultural landscape and it discusses the effects of teaching pupils according to their capacity for critical judgment and evaluation of cultural landscape, its preservation and protection, and according to their artistic creativity, through a variety of learning methods and forms of work, relevant learning media, art materials and methods of artistic expression used in the educational process. The study included 125 teachers who teach fine art classes in primary and upper level elementary education in Slovenia and 61 sixth-graders from three primary schools from different regions of Slovenia and their fine art teachers. The survey showed progress in the students’ positive and responsible attitude towards the preservation and protection of cultural landscape as well as in the teacher’s greater ability to organize art activities and in their greater responsibility for teaching pupils about the aforementioned issues successfully.
Keywords
attitudes and actions regarding the conservation and protection of cultural landscape; critical evaluation; primary education; teaching fine arts
Hrčak ID:
201196
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Publication date:
27.12.2017.
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