Preliminary communication

https://doi.org/10.31192/np.16.3.10

Pre-service early childhood and preschool education teachers’ self-assessment of competences in visual arts and music

Jerneja Herzog ; Faculty of Education, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia
Blaženka Bačlija Sušić ; Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Marijana Županić Benić orcid.org/0000-0002-7340-3439 ; Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

Visual arts and music facilitate emotional, cognitive, social, and psychomotor development in early childhood, and therefore, preschool teachers need to develop a certain level of competence to engage children in the arts. Hence, the purpose of this study was to gain insight into pre-service early childhood and preschool education teachers’ self-assessed teaching competences in the arts. Students enrolled in the third year of Early Childhood and Preschool Education study programme at the Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Zagreb and at the Faculty of Education, University of Maribor, were asked to participate in this study. The participants who graduated from grammar schools evaluated their teaching competences in music with a higher grade than the participants who graduated from secondary art schools. The participants who graduated from grammar schools were also more likely to report higher competence for planning visual arts activities, whereas the participants who graduated from secondary art schools were more likely to report higher competence in conducting visual art activities.

Keywords

arts; early childhood and preschool education; teaching competences

Hrčak ID:

209171

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/209171

Publication date:

21.11.2018.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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