Kindergarten Teacher Students as Art Educators

1. Kindergarten Teacher Students as Art Educators

2. Intensive and functional (operational) connection to an art subject A satisfied and contented kindergarten teacher Model of work contentment of kindergarten teachers Balance between conscious self and ideal self Motivation in teaching and learning

3. The new model was tested with kindergarten teacher students (N=128) of Helsinki University in the spring of 2005.

4. The model is connected with many different research areas in the conceptualistic level The elementary concepts are: • Motivation, orientation • Mastery of skills, control of the skill • Balance between conscious self and ideal self • self-conception • self-efficacy • self-appreciation • Meaningfulness and satisfaction at work • Welfare in the whole life

5. Intensive and functional relationship to some art subject (important to small children) • Subject area will come across in your work • Your own interest • Open minded and brave relationship • Different experiments • ->“Applied substance”

6. Balance between conscious self and ideal self • The balance was good • The most of the answerers were satisfied with the two self conceptions • Own strengths and weak points • Lifelong tasks

7. Balance between conscious self and ideal self • Positive attitude • Recognizing one’s own limitations • Possible to be in balance if… • Gap between ideal self and conscious self

8. Most closest art subjects of the answerers

9. Motivation in learning and teaching • The motivation level is high • Substance skills are important • Good skills • Students want to teach subjects which they appreciate themselves

10. Motivation in learning and teaching • Own interest is a good starting point • Own limitations and restrictions • The rewarding, valuable and ethical nature of work

11. Summary • Polarity and contradictions • Developing and incomplete • Meaningfulness • Concrete doing. • Many sided art subjects • The arrow model • ->A message and ability to transmit it further

12. ….and some principals • to be understood • to be accepted • to be loved

13. There are two values,which you can give your childas a present for Life.First of all: Roots,and then: Wings (An American Indian proverb)