Comparing the Art Work of Pupils at the Second Level Common School and the Waldorf School

The candidate´s work aims to compare art work of pupils at two different educational institutions: a regular primary school and a Waldorf school. The first chapter of the theoretical part deals with specific features of waldorf pedagogy in comparison to that in the traditional educational system. The second chapter outlines the development of children´s art skills, especially at the second level of a primary school. The practical part analyses a set of 82 drawings of a human figure and a Sentence Completion Test collected from the sixth and ninth grade pupils of both schools. The aim of this work is to discern possible differences in the children´s creativity at both types of schools