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Digital Tools in Primary School Art – What DifferenceDoes it Make?Stina Sofia WikbergUmeå university, SwedenAbstractThe aim of this presentation is to discuss the conditions for using digital tools inVisual Art Education in Swedish primary school. The syllabus for Visual ArtEducation from 2011 specifies that pupils in grades 4-6, in addition to creat-ing art with traditional materials, should photograph and edit digital picturesand movies. These formulations can be seen as a way of shaping a subject thatis more relevant and up-to-date than traditional art education. However, inthe latest national subject evaluation of Art education, which was carried outin 2013, 80 percent of the pupils said that they rarely or never get to photo-graph or edit digital pictures. Their teachers to the same extent also experi-ence a need for further education within this area. This presentation draws oninterviews and observations from a small scale ethnographic study of VisualArt Education in grades 5 and 6 at three primary schools. Results show thatthere are as well internal as external frame factors that prevent teachers fromproviding the pupils with possibilities to learn digital techniques in Visual Art.Two of the participating teachers lack digital equipment as well as competenceto use it, and are never offered any further education concerning pedagogical1453 Synnyt / Origins | 2 / 2019 | Abstractscontent knowledge in Visual Art. They also say that they have neither time norinclination to improve their own skills in digital techniques, especially as theylack the necessary equipment to put any new skills within this area to use intheir own teaching practice.KeywordsDigital tools, Art education, Primary school, Frame factors, Curriculum.1454 Synnyt / Origins | 2 / 2019 | Abstracts

Digital Tools in Primary School Art – What Difference Does it Make?

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