Exploring pre-service teachers' perceptions of sustainability in visual arts education

Potočnik, Robert (author), Devetak, Iztok (author), Ribič, Luka (author)

The concept of sustainability in visual arts education is a relatively new way of looking at content. Therefore, it is important that the contents of sustainability are systematically integrated into the educational process at all levels of education. In this research, special attention was paid to the specifics of understanding the complexity of the term "sustainability" of preservice teachers who come from a different educational background and who will also carry out visual arts activities with different aged students in their future work. A free association method with online interviews and artwork analysis was used in this study, with 5 female pre-service teachers from four different European countries. The study revealed that pre-service teachers recognize examples of good practice in architecture, the cultural landscape, and various other visual arts messages - they know what good sustainable practice in the environment and the arts is and what is not. However, they show less understanding of the specifics of materials as carriers of material cultural heritage or of the artworks themselves, as well as of contemporary artistic practices that emphasize themes related to sustainable issues or development. It can be concluded that further interdisciplinary approaches should be used in reaching sustainability goals in visual arts education and wider.

• Language: English
• Keywords: contemporary art, cultural heritage, foreign students, interdisciplinary approach, sustainable development, visual arts classes
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: PEF - Faculty of Education
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2025
• Number of pages: Str. 1-15
• Numbering: Vol. 11, iss. 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-165376
• UDC: 373.32.016:7.01
• ISSN on article: 2469-9632
• DOI: 10.12973/ijem.11.1.1
• COBISS.SI-ID: 217684483
• Publication date in RUL: 04.12.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: International journal of educational methodology
• Publisher: Rhapsode
• ISSN: 2469-9632
• COBISS.SI-ID: 11549769

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: trajnostni razvoj, vizualna umetnost, bodoči učitelji, interdisciplinarni pristop, vzgoja in izobraževanje, trajnost, ekologija

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: P5-0451
• Name: Strategije vzgoje in izobraževanja za trajnostni razvoj ob uporabi inovativnih na učečega osredinjenih izobraževalnih pristopov

• Funder: Other - Other funder or multiple funders
• Funding programme: RSF
• Name: Additional activities to encourage talented 1st and 2nd degree students