Artistic Education And Implicit Theories Of Secondary School Students

This article analyzes the implicit theories of ESO students in relation to Art Education and, in particular, to the subject Visual Arts that represent an obstacle in the learning of this. For this, a qualitative research has been designed using as instruments of data collection the participant observation in the plastic classroom daily for 4 months and the content analysis of several graphic-plastic activities carried out by the students. The sample is composed of all students of the 3rd year of ESO in an institute in the center of Oviedo divided into 5 groups (88 students in total). The information recorded in the field diary is analyzed through a system of categories that includes the motivation of the participating students before the subject, the self-concept and self-efficacy beliefs of the participating students, the quality of the graphic-plastic productions and other perceptions of the environment. The results of the research show that, although the students in general value and show interest in the subject, there are several implicit theories related to certain myths that are associated with Art Education. This detection of preconceptions in our area allows us to carry out a later, more extensive investigation, to modify these preconceived ideas and facilitate their learning of our students in the artistic field.