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Attitudes towards art competitions of senior secondary art students and teachers

Growing concern for the popularity of art competitions
that encourage participation of secondary school senior
art students is reflected in debate by many Australian
art educators. It appears that acceptance of the
external goal of winning a prize may demonstrate that
many students and teachers have not fully considered
the adverse implications of extrinsic rewards on
learning strategies relevant to artistic behavior. On
the other hand the benefit of exhibitions of student
art work appears to be overshadowed by the prevalence
of art competitions.
This study surveys attitudes and perceptions of art
teachers and secondary senior art students towards art
competitions supported by the school.
Subjects include secondary senior art students and
teachers from selected Brisbane Independent Schools.
It appears that participation in art competitions is more frequent in these schools. Results may prove
beneficial to art educators who are concerned with the
issue of extrinsic rewards for artistic behavior.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/219093
Date January 1988
CreatorsKnight-Mudie, Karen, n/a
PublisherUniversity of Canberra. Education
Source SetsAustraliasian Digital Theses Program
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
Rights), Copyright Karen Knight-Mudie

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