TEACHERS JUDGMENTS ABOUT THE TEACHING OF ART IN PRIMARY-SCHOOLS

One hundred primary school teachers from 16 schools completed a questi onnaire in which they described their classroom organisation of art. T hey also completed a scale of general attitude towards the teaching of art in primary school and another scale assessing their attitude towa rds teaching art in their own classroom. A sample of the teachers was later interviewed on issues concerning the evaluation of children's ar t work. Some wide variations were found in classroom practices. Attitu des towards the teaching of art were relatively positive, and somewhat more positive among teachers with higher qualifications in art and th ose who had some school responsibility concerning art education. There were some reservations expressed about the adequacy of teacher traini ng in art and about the resources available for art development in sch ool.