The Real-Life Experience of Visual Art in Czech Extracurricular and Co-curricular Education

Abstract

In 2016, the characteristics and approaches to art mediation as an educative approach to facilitation of understanding and experiencing art in Czech extracurricular field trips and school outreach programmes were defined and investigated by faculty members of Department of Primary Education within an independent research project. This paper presents a theoretical background to the investigation results. The research study used a qualitative research method of semi-controlled interviews with professionals from different extracurricular establishments. The goal was to achieve a holistic view of the current concept of visual art on the basis of extracurricular school programmes and their pedagogical potential and to describe and define the methodological specifics of this phenomenon using a research design based on datas gained from six extensive interviews The open-coding analysis method used here reveals a generalised view of the topic. Thus it will provide clear reasons and way of implementation of art mediation from extracullicular environment to schools.

Keywords

• co-curricular education
• extracurricular
• experiential education
• object-based education
• visual art