Museum as a Classroom for Teaching Art Education

Ovaj rad istražuje mogućnosti korištenja muzeja umjesto učionice u nastavi Likovne kulture. Muzeji kroz svoje aktivnosti nude razne mogućnosti u radu s učenicima koje oduševljavaju djecu jer uvažavaju i prate emocionalni i kognitivni razvoj učenika. Također muzeji su otvoreni za produktivne likovne aktivnosti te istraživačko učenje što doprinosi razvoju različitih dječjih sposobnosti. Upravo takav način rada nadilazi verbalne načine izražavanja koje susrećemo u učionicama. Budući da je za ovakve projekte potreban pozitivan stav roditelja, ali i obrazovnih djelatnika proveli smo istraživanje s ciljem da se utvrde stavovi o važnosti povezivanja muzeja s nastavom Likovne kulture. Istraživanje je provedeno na studentima (budućim roditeljima i nekim možda budućim obrazovnim djelatnicima društvenih i prirodnih znanosti) kako bismo usporedili kolika je osviještenost jedne i druge skupine. Rezultati su pokazali da se studenti prirodnih i društvenih znanosti ne razlikuju po svojim stavovima o muzeju kao učionici u nastavi Likovne kulture, odnosno studenti se u velikom broju slažu s tvrdnjama koje izražavaju pozitivne stavove o važnosti neformalnog učenja u muzejskim prostorima.This research paper explores the possibilities of using a museum, instead of classroom, as a place for teaching Art. Museums offer different programmes and activities that are very good for pupils because they are in accordance with their emotional and cognitive development. Museums also offer different productive activities and interactive learning environment which can contribute to the development of different abilities in children. This way of teaching Art overcomes verbal ways of expressing used in classrooms. Since this type of project requires a positive attitude from parents, as well as from educational workers, we conducted this research with a goal to confirm the attitudes about the importance of connecting the work of museums and the ways of teaching Arts. This research is conducted with the help of students (future parents and possible future educational workers in the fields of social and natural sciences) in order to compare the awareness of different groups. The results showed that the students of social and natural sciences have the same attitudes; that is: both groups mostly agree with the claims which express the positive attitudes about the importance of informal learning environment in museums