Doc. Jitka Géringová, Ph.D. is educated and trained in the field of art education (Faculty of Education of Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem), visual art (Academy of Arts, Architecture & Design in Prague) and art therapy/psychotherapy (ČAA, ČIB). Currently she works as Associate Professor at the Department of Art and Education at the Faculty of Education of Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem and provide a therapeutic service in a several institutions in Prague and Ústí nad Labem.
Artist As a Teacher. Pedagogical Concepts of Artist — Experts in the Field of Visual Art
(a speech with Dagmar Myšáková & Patricie Pleyerová)
The aim of the paper is to introduce the project Intuitive Pedagogical Concepts of Experts in the Field of Visual Arts, focused on distinctive concepts and attitudes of artists to passing on various values in art education. The theme of this project is presented in the broader context of the contemporary global research in the field of artistic pedagogy. The paper focuses on one of the outcomes of the project: a publication of unique interviews with various renowned Czech artists who have been active since the 1960s and worked as art professors at some point. The publication became a starting point for a follow-up research which aims to describe and compare the pedagogical approaches of the selected artists. One of the key points of this research is the question whether the often intuitive pedagogical concepts of artists can be observed from the viewpoint of didactic strategies in the field of art education. The component research questions focus on the typology of artists in the role of teachers, on their approach to teaching, and their work with the individuality of their students, along with their inspirational starting points. The key point of the research is the question: “How to teach art?” Its ambition is to define and compare individual methods and forms of teaching art in the wider context of art education.