Parents attitude towards the art subject : Parents attitude about art education in primary school and the art programs at highschool

The aim of this essay is to find out how parents with children in primary school feel about the art subject. The essay also includes whether the parents are aware of the art subject´s purpose according to the curriculum and how they feel about the art related programs available at high school. The chosen methods to collect the parent's answers are interviews and surveys. The socio-cultural theory is the basis for the theory chapter, due to its focus on different socio-cultural groups. This can be of good use for this essay since the parents come from different socio-cultural groups. The essay's results are based on 103 survey responses and three interviews with unknown individuals - all of whom have children in primary school. The results conclude that a slight majority of the parents who had a positive attitude towards the aesthetic subjects also has an education at university level. The parents who themselves did not like visual arts in primary school or opposed the subject, lacked a university education to some extent or were in most cases educated in natural science fields such as nurses and doctors.