Photographic literacy in arts education at the third cycle of Primary School (Spain)

• Autor(a) principal: Domínguez-Gómez, Eva María
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Sánchez-Durán, Claudia
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Digital do LAV ( Laboratório de Artes Visuais)
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ufsm.br/revislav/article/view/22037
• topic: Communication and Education; Arts Education; Photography; Textbook; Primary School; Comunicación y educación; Educación artística; Fotografía; Libro de texto; Primaria

It seems appropriate, living in a visual world, to analyse the teaching of Photography as an art course in primary school. Two main aims guide our work, developed in the Region of Extremadura (Spain): 1) to gain insights about the contents concerning photography in textbooks of visual arts in the third cycle of primary education, and 2) to analyse the visual arts teachers’ aptitudes concerning photography as a means for artistic expression. According to the results, one can perceive that the basic contents in the textbooks, related directly to photography as means for artistic production, are very scarce or none, being an underused resource. On the other hand, even though teachers think that photography is an attractive, motivating and relevant media, they do not use it in the classroom regularly