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Attitudes to Making Art in the Primary School
Author(s) -
Watts Robert
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
international journal of art and design education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.312
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1476-8070
pISSN - 1476-8062
DOI - 10.1111/j.1476-8070.2005.00447.x
Subject(s) - creativity , visual arts education , pedagogy , psychology , pupil , expression (computer science) , primary education , mathematics education , visual arts , social psychology , art , the arts , computer science , neuroscience , programming language
Recent research suggests that the majority of primary school teachers in the UK believe that the purpose of teaching art and design is to develop skills associated with creativity, communication and expression. This article is based on research into the attitudes held by primary school pupils towards making art. The reflective nature of many of the responses to the survey provides persuasive evidence of young children's capacity for absorbing relatively complex ideas, which in turn has implications for teacher expectations of pupil learning in art and design.