(1763) QUALITATIVE STUDY ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF IMAGINATION IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS IN KUWAIT

摘要

Art education have written widely about the imagination issue on the development and performance of education and addressed by the authors of multiple researches who studied ideas related to education in arts and the creativity employed by teachers in art education design. The inclusion of the arts in the curriculum has led to heated debate in recent years. Opinion regarding this issue has differed from school to school: one school preferred arts education as a discrete subject to be studied separately from other subjects, while others insisted that the arts be introduced into the curriculum within other subjects. Another issue that has led to controversy around the world is whether the arts should be taught by specialist or generalist teachers, or by community artists. Qualitative study is conducted using themes as a tool of analysis to explore the importance of encouragement, participation and accessibility on the development of imagination in elementary students in Kuwait. The researcher conducted 40 individual interviews with school supervisors, teachers and students who are working and studying in elementary schools in Kuwait. Each group of interviewees was given ten open-ended questions and they were asked to answer the questions based on their free will. The interview answers were collected, coded according to themes, and analysed.