PERCEPTION OF PROSPECTIVE TEACHERS IN ‘ART IN EDUCATION’

Education

It has been explored that Art plays many roles in the educational setting -in and out of schools and for learners of all ages. Benefits of art education exist beyond the art room. If the society is encompassing diversity in its cultural characteristics, it makes the educational system accountable for developing the personality of the learner, which would help him /her to adjust. This huge responsibility is on the shoulder of the teachers. And it is observed that teachers are very apprehensive when we discuss the role of arts in education. ‘Art in Education’ is usually misinterpreted as drawing and painting only. A need was felt to conceive the idea of arts in the mind of prospective teachers and how they relate to their teaching considering their subject specialization. The current research was carried out to investigate the perception of prospective school teachers in ‘art in education’. This descriptive-analytical study was conducted on 100 prospective school teachers studying in the Aligarh Muslim University, UP. The age ranged from 22 to 28 years. The findings indicated the prospective female teachers’ perception of Art in education was higher than the prospective male teachers but as far as career is concerned the male respondents favoured Art as a career, and it is also seen that men dominate the career fields in Arts.

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