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The Visual Arts represent specific spiritual and material activities of people, a special kind of understanding and communication between people, which creates a connection between the individual and the social, the material and the spiritual, and transfers the knowledge and experience of mankind in a special way. The ennobling power of art greatly contributes to …

The purpose of this work was to study the position of art as a school subject through the evaluation, refl ection and attitudes of primary school eighth-graders. Thesurvey was conducted on the sample of 303 eighth-graders of primary schools in the Splitsko-dalmatinska County.We herein present the most signifi cant results of the survey: 54.5% of …

In this study we have concentrated on the Mediterranean region by undertaking a survey on the use of Mediterranean motifs in art classes. The results of the survey and their analysis indicate the following: teachers change motifs in art classes and in doing so they often choose Mediterranean motifs as they fi nd them important …

The goal of this study was to determine whether teachers and students use art textbooks in the lower grades of elementary school (which textbooks are used, why, who decides on the choice of the textbook, and in which part of the class the textbook is used). We also researched teachers’ opinion about the importance of …