With the implementation of the 2011 guidance documents (Lgr11), the aesthetic perspective was strengthened in the Swedish secondary school, according to Marie-Louise Hansson Stenhammar (2015: 60). The purpose of this thesis is to examine whether there are differences in the extent to which some teachers use learning through aesthetic experience, and to identify possible advantages and obstacles in this respect. After a brief overview of four major theoretical perspectives of learning, we present a minor quantitative study that we relate to previous research. Anne Bamford (2009 : 11) and Hélène Trocmé-Fabre (Jedrzejak 2012 : 24) show in their research how tools relating to aesthetic activities can improve learning. The main finding in our survey, covering a few teachers over the country, is that the use of these tools varies greatly, and that the degree of interest and motivation for this area of activity differs from teacher to teacher. Advantages for the pupils, mentioned by participants in our study, are motivation, variation, use of several senses, consolidation of knowledge, activation of the photographic memory and easier learning of the language. While research, by Hansson Stenhammar (2015), points out teacher’s interpretation of regulatory frames as an obstacle to the use of aesthetic activities, in our study the perceived obstacles are the teacher’s lack of motivation, time and teaching material. Our participants are randomly sampled, from across the country, and findings from our small study cannot be extended to a wider population. Our recommendation for further research would be a study on how the pupils’ attitudes and motivation is affected by aesthetic experiences.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-84902 |
| Date | January 2018 |
| Creators | Nilsson, Birgitta |
| Publisher | Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för didaktik och lärares praktik (DLP) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | French |
| 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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