The aim of the work – to examine internals of the efficiency using the art activity for socialization process for pre-school children. 114 pedagogues and 131 parents of Kaunas city pre-school institutions took part in this poll. The subject of the survey: improvement of the socialization process of the pre-school child. The hypotheses: • Artistic activities improve the socialization of pre-school children in the pre-school institution; • Artistic education meets the most important needs of pre-school children; • Artistic activities improve the most important educational competentions of the child; Objectives: • To analyze the theoretical presupposition of a pre-school child’s socialization process; • To analyze the theoretical presupposition of a pre-school child’s socialization process attained by the means of effective artistic activities; • To explore the parents’ attitude towards the improvement of a child’s socialization by the means of effective artistic activities; • To explore the pedagogues’ attitude the improvement of a child’s socialization by the means of effective artistic activities; • To make conclusions and give recommendations. Methods of exploratory: nonfiction analysis, questionnaire, interview, mathematical statistics. Results. The socialization of pre-school children gets better by using art activities in the pre-school institutions. Art activities positively affect the main needs (emotional, cognitive, motional) of the pre-school children. The... [to full text]

The purpose of this study was to determine how much art activity is taking place within households in Austin, Texas. By way of a questionnaire, the parents or guardians of children attending schools within the Austin Independent School District were surveyed regarding art activity within their homes. The objective of this investigation was to provide answers to questions such as: In what ways do children participate in art making within the context of the family household? To what extent does it appear a parent’s/guardian’s level of schooling, number of children in the family, and amount of electronic entertainment available to the child correspond with the amount of art activity that takes place in the household? Professional and personal motivations led to this investigation. There is an ever increasing amount of electronic entertainment available to children. Has this recent growth of technology had an effect on the amount of time children spend with art activities in the home? Through my own experiences growing up, and through conversations with others, it was brought to my attention that the number of children residing in a household might have an effect on the amount of art activities taking place within the home, as well as the parent’s or guardian’s level of education. Through the data collected by this investigation, I was able to reach a conclusion regarding the relationship found between the amount of art activities taking place in the households surveyed and the three variables studied in this investigation: (a) the parent’s education, (b) the amount of electronic entertainment available to the children in the home, (c) the number of children residing in the home. Support from the data indicated a significant pattern representing that the parent’s/guardian’s education is related to the amount of art activity taking place within the household. However, there was no pattern found regarding the variable of electronic entertainment devices found in a home and the amount of art making within that home. There was also a significant relationship found regarding the numbers of children residing in the household, and the amount of art activity those children are engaged in. The data collected indicated that a household in which fewer children reside is more likely to participate in more art activities. / text

<p>Abstract</p><p>The purpose of this investigation is to find out how the pupils can discover and to feel joy in their creative art activity and also to believe in their own ability. The aim is to figure out if creative art activity is able to raise the pupil’s self-image. By literature, pedagogue interviews, and interviews with pupils at the age of ten years old and by action research is the way that I have searched for an answer for my question. The main result is that fantasy, creativity, courage and lust are important parts to develop in the job of raising the self-image. The literature and the result of the interviews are unit and points at the feeling to succeed are decisive. As a pedagogue you have to create an allowing environment, give the pupil praise that is concrete and to have an attitude that means to be confident in the subject to teach. Through joint discussion about the creative art activity is also contributing to raise the pupil’s self-image. My conclusion is that the pedagogue has a big responsibility in the job of raising the pupil’s self-image through creating the correct conditions.</p><p>Keywords: self-image, creative art activity, creativity, expressio</p> / <p>Sammanfattning</p><p>Syftet med denna undersökning är att utforska hur eleverna kan upptäcka och känna glädje i sitt bildskapande, och även tro på sin förmåga. Meningen är att ta reda på om bildskapande kan vara ett redskap för att stärka elevens självuppfattning. Genom utvald litteratur och intervju med pedagoger, intervju med elever i år 4 samt aktionsforskning i samband med elevintervjuerna har jag sökt svar på min frågeställning. Huvudresultatet i min undersökning är att fantasi, kreativitet, mod och lust är viktiga delar att locka fram, för att stärka elevers självuppfattning. Litteraturen och intervjuerna påtalar också enigt att känslan av att lyckas är avgörande. Som pedagog ska man skapa en tillåtande miljö, ge konkret uppmuntran och att ha en attityd som innebär bland annat att vara bekväm med det medium man undervisar i. Gemensam bearbetning av elevernas skapande stärker elevernas självuppfattning ytterligare. Slutsats är att pedagogen har ett stort ansvar i arbetet med att stärka elevernas självuppfattning, i att skapa rätt förutsättningar. Då kan redskapet absolut vara bildskapande.</p><p>Nyckelord: Självuppfattning, bildskapande, kreativitet, uttryck</p>

Abstract The purpose of this investigation is to find out how the pupils can discover and to feel joy in their creative art activity and also to believe in their own ability. The aim is to figure out if creative art activity is able to raise the pupil’s self-image. By literature, pedagogue interviews, and interviews with pupils at the age of ten years old and by action research is the way that I have searched for an answer for my question. The main result is that fantasy, creativity, courage and lust are important parts to develop in the job of raising the self-image. The literature and the result of the interviews are unit and points at the feeling to succeed are decisive. As a pedagogue you have to create an allowing environment, give the pupil praise that is concrete and to have an attitude that means to be confident in the subject to teach. Through joint discussion about the creative art activity is also contributing to raise the pupil’s self-image. My conclusion is that the pedagogue has a big responsibility in the job of raising the pupil’s self-image through creating the correct conditions. Keywords: self-image, creative art activity, creativity, expressio / Sammanfattning Syftet med denna undersökning är att utforska hur eleverna kan upptäcka och känna glädje i sitt bildskapande, och även tro på sin förmåga. Meningen är att ta reda på om bildskapande kan vara ett redskap för att stärka elevens självuppfattning. Genom utvald litteratur och intervju med pedagoger, intervju med elever i år 4 samt aktionsforskning i samband med elevintervjuerna har jag sökt svar på min frågeställning. Huvudresultatet i min undersökning är att fantasi, kreativitet, mod och lust är viktiga delar att locka fram, för att stärka elevers självuppfattning. Litteraturen och intervjuerna påtalar också enigt att känslan av att lyckas är avgörande. Som pedagog ska man skapa en tillåtande miljö, ge konkret uppmuntran och att ha en attityd som innebär bland annat att vara bekväm med det medium man undervisar i. Gemensam bearbetning av elevernas skapande stärker elevernas självuppfattning ytterligare. Slutsats är att pedagogen har ett stort ansvar i arbetet med att stärka elevernas självuppfattning, i att skapa rätt förutsättningar. Då kan redskapet absolut vara bildskapande. Nyckelord: Självuppfattning, bildskapande, kreativitet, uttryck

Nowadays children’s intellectual education is in a rush, and education of feelings, culture, and willpower are forgotten. Parents and teachers hope, that child will go to school with elements of reading, writing and calculation. That held up research’s problem - “preparation” for school, the most parents and teachers understand it like possession of specific skills: reading, writing and calculation. Children’s individual exigency are depreciated, all are oriented to result, but not to process. If we can accept, that childhood’s artistic self-expression, drawing – that’s natural ways to recognize the world, children’s creation reflects various aspects of ripeness, the game, art develops self-image, drawing is one of the earlier communication’s forms, we can affirm, that children’s art can be analyzing as way of cognition, the spread of communicational and social skills, that is like education of essential competences. Object of research – education of preschoolers’ essential competences. Hypothesis of research – if we think, that education with art includes new forms of child’s activities, brings up new purposes, requirements, gives for child proper means to achieve these purposes, it is impossible, that in this way will be educated child’s essential competences. Purpose of research – to uncover possibilities of art activity in order to refine preschoolers’ essential competences (social, keeping health, communication, cognition, artistic). Problems of research: with help of... [to full text]

本研究旨在探討幼稚園教師對美術活動之教學態度，主要目的有三：一、編制「幼稚園教師美術活動教學態度問卷」；二、瞭解幼稚園教師對美術活動教學態度之實際情況；三、探討不同背景變項下幼稚園教師對美術活動教學態度之差異情形；四、根據研究結果提出具體建議，做為改善學前階段美術教育之參考。 本研究以調查研究法，調查與分析幼稚園教師對美術活動之教學態度，依據文獻探討的結果編製「幼稚園教師美術活動教學態度問卷」，並經專家效度檢驗以及問卷預試成立正式問卷及建立問卷的效度與信度(Cronbach’s α係數為 .886)。 本研究以台北縣公、私立幼稚園之教師為研究對象，並以「幼稚園教師美術活動教學態度問卷」為研究工具，共發放340份問卷，回收208份問卷，回收率為61%。調查所得資料以描述統計、卡方考驗、單因子變異數分析方法進行分析。 本研究之研究結果為：一、幼稚園教師對美術活動的教學態度分為四個主要取向，分別為「幼兒本位取向」、「美術本位取向」、「教師本位取向」，以及「較少干涉取向」。二、不同教學年資、年齡、專業領域、公私立園所之幼稚園教師在美術活動教學態度上有所差異。 最後，本研究依據研究結果，分別對幼稚園教師、相關教育單位，以及後續美術活動相關研究提出具體建議，以供參考。 / The purpose of research is to investigate the kindergarten teachers’ attitude of teaching art. Four aims of this research are: 1. To compile the “Kindergarten Teachers’ Attitude of Art Activity Questionnaire” as the research tool. 2. To inquire current kindergarten teachers’ attitude of teaching art. 3. To analysis differences among teachers’ attitudes of teaching art on four distinct dimensions: years of teaching, age, professional knowledge of individual teachers, and the types of kindergarten (public and private). 4. To make suggestions for a teacher teaching art in kindergarten, related associations or departments, and someone interesting this topic. Researcher designed the contents of “Kindergarten Teachers’ Attitude of Teaching Art Questionnaire” by following phrases: compile items of questionnaire from literature, evaluate items by five experts to build validity, and using statistical analysis to establish reliability (Cronbach’s α .886). Researcher randomly sampled 340 subjects from kindergartens in Taipei county and delivered the questionnaire and 208 samples were valid (61%). The data were analyzed using: descriptive statistics, χ2 test, one-way ANOVA, and LSD posterior comparisons. The result was: 1. The mainly approaches of teachers’ attitude of teaching art are children-oriented approach, art-oriented approach, teacher-oriented approach, and little-intervention-oriented approach. 2. Significant differences of teachers’ attitude were found between teachers in different years of teaching, age, professional knowledge of individual teachers, and the type of kindergarten. The researcher made recommendations to kindergarten teachers, education administrations, and further related research based on the conclusions.

The aim of my diploma work was focusing on motivation to art activity and creativity of children of younger school age in the pedagogy of leisure time. The art project {\clq}{\clq}The four seasons`` focuses on aim to clarify the children of younger school age the nature, habits, traditions and further interests of single seasons and to motivate them to their own art activity and arouse enthusiasm and creativity. These aims are in the project achieved by literarily-dramatic, artistic, locomotory, environmental and experimental education. In the conclusion I mention phenomenoms, which arose during the realization of the project ``The four seasons`` and I summarize my findings and knowledge.

My work deals with the development of visual literacy in pre-school age through art activities. The thesis is divided into two parts: theoretical and practical. The first chapter focuses on the pre-school age of children, their physical and mental development, the development of basic skills and skills, socialization and play. The second chapter focuses on the concept of visual literacy. The third chapter deals with the artistic activity in terms of its contribution to the personality of man. The fourth chapter describes how to develop visual literacy in practice through verbal and visual interpretation of visual arts. In the practical part of the diploma thesis I describe four art projects that I made with the children in the kindergarten. For each activity, the assignment, course of project, material, educational target, and final evaluation are given. The result of the thesis is the finding that the development of visual literacy is important for a person living in the 21st century. Visual art is a possibility how to develop visual literacy.