Kindergarten Teacher Students as Art Educators

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Kindergarten Teacher Students as Art Educators
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Model of work contentment of kindergarten
teachers
Balance between conscious self and ideal self
Motivation in teaching and learning
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• The new model was tested with kindergarten
  teacher students (N128) of Helsinki University
  in the spring of 2005.

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The model is connected with many different
research areas in the conceptualistic level

• The elementary concepts are
• Motivation, orientation
• Mastery of skills, control of the skill
• Balance between conscious self and ideal self
• self-conception
• self-efficacy
• self-appreciation
• Meaningfulness and satisfaction at work
• Welfare in the whole life

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Intensive and functional relationship to some art
subject (important to small children)

• Subject area will come across in your work
• Your own interest
• Open minded and brave relationship
• Different experiments
• -gtApplied substance

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Balance between conscious self and ideal self

• The balance was good
• The most of the answerers were satisfied with the
  two self conceptions
• Own strengths and weak points
• Lifelong tasks

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Balance between conscious self and ideal self

• Positive attitude
• Recognizing ones own limitations
• Possible to be in balance if
• Gap between ideal self and conscious self

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Most closest art subjects of the answerers
Most important and closest art subject Number of answers
Music 35
Fine Arts 27
Physical education 24
Handicraft, textile work 13
Theatre and self expression 4
Dancing 2
Literature 1
In total 101
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about the art subjects they think are the most
difficult to teach

• The balance was estimated through speculating the
  demands of the subject against own (often too
  small) skills in the subject.
• Most of the difficulties seemed to be in area of
  music (10 cases).
• drawing (4 cases) and
• handicraft (3 cases). Physical education and
  literary art were found difficult in one case

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Motivation in learning and teaching

• The motivation level is high
• Substance skills are important
• Good skills
• Students want to teach subjects which they
  appreciate themselves

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Motivation in learning and teaching

• Own interest is a good starting point
• Own limitations and restrictions
• The rewarding, valuable and ethical nature of work

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Motivation in learning and teaching

• What might this teaching then be?
• Guide
• New paths for children
• Asking questions
• Living together,
• Being a model
• Giving and sharing things and experiences
• Doing and discussing with the children
• Humanity, empathy and sensitivity
• Situation consciousness, personal relationship to
  children

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Motivation in learning and teaching

• What could learning be?
• Feelings, emotions, and experiences
• Doing things, living thinking and considering
  things
• Openness and dealing with own understanding.
• Interaction between the learner, the adviser and
  the substance.
• Interaction between motivation, ambition and
  willpower
• Rehearsing trying, rethinking and repeating,
  feeling or foreseeing things
• Impatient with doing things, persistent trying
  with the motivation power.
• Enjoying, strong emotions, reaching to high
  targets.
• It might even be art.

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• One reason for wanting to become a kindergarten
  teacher was that I have always been interested in
  many things like music, drawing, physical
  education etc. Though, I am not so good in for
  example physical education that I could have
  specialized in that area alone. My skills and
  motivation are well sufficient in the work of a
  kindergarten teacher.

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Summary

• Polarity and contradictions
• Developing and incomplete
• Meaningfulness
• Concrete doing.
• Many sided art subjects
• The arrow model
• -gtA message and ability to transmit it further

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Education. What is it?

• It is not merely the science but the art also. So
  one could talk about the
• Educational sciences
• Educational Arts

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.and some principals

• to be understood
• to be accepted
• to be loved

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There are two values,which you can give your
childas a present for Life.First of all
Roots,and then Wings (An American Indian
proverb)