The cognitive aspect of interactive learning and teaching in visual arts education

Zlata Tomljenović

doi:10.18690/rei.13.2.131-152.2020

Zlata Tomljenović University of Rijeka, Faculty of Teacher Education https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3239-3729

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18690/rei.13.2.131-152.2020

Keywords: interactive approach to learning and teaching, visual arts, cognitive abilities, creative thinking,, critical thinking

Abstract

The task of contemporary visual arts education is to enable quality interaction among all subjects of the teaching process, through which the students are encouraged to think, imagine, and develop higherorder
cognitive activities. The objective of this empirical research study was to verify the differences in the results of students in the control and experimental groups (n=285) regarding their knowledge and understanding
of visual arts content. Analysis of the results shows that the students in EG showed significantly better results compared to the students in CG, which means that the interactive model of learning and teaching positively
influenced the students’ understanding of visual arts content.

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