ART EXPRESSION OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN WITH REGARD TO THE APPROACH TO ACTIVITY PLANNING
Keywords:
traditional and contemporary approach to planning, kindergarten, educator, child, artistic expressionAbstract
Planning activities for preschool children based on monitoring and documenting their interests for
the purpose of overall development is the orientation of the latest National Curriculum for early and
preschool education of the Re public of Croatia, is in force since 2015. Such an approach to planning in this
paper is called a modern approach, while the practice of pre planned and designed activities for children is
called a traditional approach. This research was created as a prepa ration for the larger one, that aimed to
compare the impact of the six month light and shadow research on the development of artistic expression of
children aged five and six, which was carried out in two variants of activity planning: on the basis of
moni tored children's interests and on the basis of a preconceived program. Main goal of the research of this
paper, which was to compare the results of the initial state of artistic expression of children classified into
groups according to the activity planni ng approach. The descriptive and inferential statistics (t test)
procedures were used in the analysis of the research results. A total of 110 children participated, i.e. eight
kindergarten groups of the Istrian County divided into two categories of plannin g approaches. Four groups
with eight educators chose to carry out activities based on a modern approach of planning and four groups
with eight educators chose to work with a traditional approach, according to apreconceived program. Visual
abilities were me asured with regard to optical thematic, creative and modelling development. The best results
for optical thematic, creative and modelling development were shown by children of groups working on the
basis of children's interest, with a statistically signifi cant difference compared to the results of children of
groups working according to a predetermined program. Given the results obtained, it can be assumed that the
educator's affinity for the activity planning approach has a significant impact on the develo pment of artistic
expression of children aged five and six.
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