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THE CURRICULUM OF ART EDUCATION IN PRIMARY SCHOOL AND EDUCATIONAL REALITY

J. Vasikova

Abstract

In this contribution, sub outcomes of an empirical study dealing with the art teachers in primary education are presented. The aim of the research was to ensure teachers’ relationship between the curriculum of art education and educational reality. This research was conducted in two countries – the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic. The relationship between the teacher and the educational reality was established through questionnaire, addressed to teachers. We presented the research data verbally, using frequency tables and graphs, which we subsequently interpreted. We wanted to determine the knowledge which the teachers of primary school have about art curriculum; to describe the role of art education in contemporary school from the teachers’ answer, to know what the application of art curriculum in educational practice is. The outcomes prove that teachers are unclear about the goals and some categories from the national curriculum. Most of the teachers agree that art education belongs to compulsory subject and some of them (especially teachers from the Slovak Republic) have no experience with preparation of the school educational programme. This fact denies the basic concept of the curriculum, which was introduced after the recent curriculum reforms.

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