Art education, Creativity and Society

Title: Art education, Creativity and Society Author: Michal Filip Department: Department of Art Education Supervisor: doc. PaedDr. Pavel Šamšula, CSc. Abstract: The dissertation addresses the issue of creativity in art education. The theoretical part of the work first explains the general foundation of the social context, which plays a key role in education focused on the development of creativity. The author outlines the historical roots of the relationship between art education and creativity against the background of emerging interest in creativity in the subject of drawing in the Czechoslovak Republic in the 1920s. Using key historical milestones in the field of art education, the work looks back at the period of "intense interest in art education and creativity" between the 1960s and 1980s in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. On the basis of an evaluation of art education experts, the theoretical part of the work highlights the perceived problems that arose in the implementation of creativity training as part of art education. The selected aspects of the self-evaluation conducted by schools on creativity in art education and reflections on the cross-cultural contexts of creativity chart contemporary issues in the given subject. Special attention is devoted to a definition of the term "creativity"...