In Swedish school students seem to pay little attention on how to experience and use inspiration in their creative artwork. When asked to seek inspiration they tend to find an image and copy it rather than actively use it as inspiration. The purpose of this study is to inquire how teenagers define inspiration and how they use it and what impacts the understanding of it. To benefit teachers in their planning of the subject of creating art. By having semi structured interviews with six 15-year-old students and analysing the collected thoughts through a sociocultural perspective we find that teenagers have a collective understanding that inspiration is when you take an idea from someone else’s creation and make it their own. What the inspiration source are depends on the subject, the purpose and the situation. According to most of the interviewed students you get inspired in different ways depending on if it is in art or in language class. In art the main inspiration source is visual and is something you find outside of yourself. The people around you take part in your inspiration and affects the outcome of your artwork. Sometimes in a good way, when ideas are taken from classmates, sometimes not in an efficient way, when the mates disturb your focus and ability to create. Inspiration does not seem that important to these pupils because if you are motivated, even when you’re not inspired, you will still create something that the teacher can grade. However, they all agree that copying others and not create their own thing may impact their ability to be creative, which have a negative effect in other subjects in school as well.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:du-45406 |
| Date | January 2023 |
| Creators | Norman, Delphiné |
| Publisher | Högskolan Dalarna, Bild |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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