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At the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts, students learn how to link their artistic practice to a theoretical approach to developing their whole personality. This provides students with the ethical and moral values that will guide them in the future and provide a catalyst for change. In this way, students are thoroughly prepared for their future work in schools, as they embody the knowledge, abilities and skills they should teach their pupils. During their university course on the Teaching Methodology of Fine Arts, students consider how to reconstruct their own creative processes and how to use any rules they have discovered to aid the creative processes of their pupils. In addition, they learn methods and techniques for stimulating creativity and fully examine the relationship between creative teaching and teaching creativity. It is equally important that students realize their true nature through their artistic expression. Consequently, the teaching process must always be envisaged as a participative art ; such that teaching becomes a form of personal expression, that is to say, an artistic form. In this way, the teacher also becomes an artist, primarily an artist who creates new personalities and new relationships in a way that enables them to experience self-realization through the teaching process. This all-pervasive relationship between teacher and artist comes to the fore, particularly in designing and implementing graduate research, where students start from their personal interests. They investigate their chosen subject from two perspectives: as their own creative expression and as the process of creative teaching. As a result, graduate research can become a complete and original artistic project that will greatly benefit both students and pupils. An example of this approach will be presented in a qualitatively processed case study. The aim of this research was to recognize the rules and links in the student’s creative process and topic of interest (prejudices and stereotypes in relation to women) into pupils’ creative process. The result is a complex student’s artwork and pupils’ progress in the reflection of prejudices and stereotypes on a given topic. |
