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UMJETNOST KAO TERAPIJA
ART AS A THERAPY

Author(s): Ahmet Ibukić
Subject(s): Education, Cognitive Psychology, Evaluation research, Health and medicine and law, Sociology of Art, Sociology of Education
Published by: ISLAMSKI PEDAGOŠKI FAKULTET U BIHAĆU
Keywords: creativity; art therapy; expression; elements; phenomenology; principle of socialisation; method; education; painting; game; spontaneously; imagination; special; orientation; activation; development;

Summary/Abstract: Children with special needs are for the first time included in the educational process after the school reform and transfer of primary education into nine year period. Second group consists of children with special needs. Association of parents, children and youth with special needs as a part of their program activities often organize art workshops - Art therapies, in which children are able to artistically express themselves through game methods in a spontaneous and coincidental way. Coordination of eye and hand, “sprinkle, sprinkle” technique, spraying and design of colours and shapes, indeed show that children are full of will and imagination. Emotions and art Emotions lead us and stimulate the activity. Motivation of the pupils can be accomplished through activation of positive emotions. Emotions, excitement, sensitivity, love and artistic feelings are almost always present in children’s artistic creativity. Absence of positive emotions causes decline in the work intensity of blood flow rhythm and breathing, as a part of endocrine system.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 301-316
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Bosnian