The Arts: A Precious Part of Special Education? How Principals Value and Organise Arts Education in Compulsory School for Pupils with Intellectual Disability in Sweden

Autor/inn/en	Sjöqvist, Anna; Göransson, Kerstin; Bengtsson, Karin; Hansson, Susanne
Titel	The Arts: A Precious Part of Special Education? How Principals Value and Organise Arts Education in Compulsory School for Pupils with Intellectual Disability in Sweden
Quelle	In: European Journal of Special Needs Education, 36 (2021) 3, S.454-468 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Sjöqvist, Anna) ORCID (Göransson, Kerstin) ORCID (Bengtsson, Karin) ORCID (Hansson, Susanne)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0885-6257
DOI	10.1080/08856257.2020.1764809
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Art Education; Special Education; Intellectual Disability; Students with Disabilities; Principals; Special Schools; Teacher Qualifications; Value Judgment; Regular and Special Education Relationship; Administrator Attitudes; Teacher Competencies; Skill Development; Cooperation; Visual Arts; Music Education; Handicrafts; Teacher Certification; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Arts; Education; Art in Education; Kunst; Bildung; Erziehung; Special needs education; Sonderpädagogik; Sonderschulwesen; Intellect; Disability; Disabilities; Verstand; Behinderung; Student; Students; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Principal; Schulleiter; Special school; Sonderschule; Lehrqualifikation; Werturteil; Lehrkunst; Kompetenzentwicklung; Qualifikationsentwicklung; Co-operation; Kooperation; Optische Gestaltung; Musikerziehung; Handwerk; Schweden
Abstract	The intersection of arts education and special education as a field has been described as lacking in unity, partly because the practices of its different stakeholders are embedded in either special education or arts education. This paper investigates how principals prioritise teachers' qualifications when organising arts education in compulsory school for pupils with intellectual disabilities (CSID) in Sweden, what they perceive the value of arts education in CSID to be and how they organise arts education in relation to cooperation between pupils from CSID and compulsory regular school (CRS). These questions were investigated using a questionnaire, which was answered by 124 principals. The results show that around three times as many principals prioritised specialised arts knowledge over competence in special education. However, the degree to which this occurred varied across arts subjects. A majority of the principals valued arts education for the opportunities it offers pupils to develop generic abilities, such as communication skills, creativity, and imagination. Cooperation between CSID and CRS for arts education appeared to depend on how school leadership was organised. The article concludes with suggestions on how the organisation of arts education could be improved in relation to the two areas of expertise and the idea of inclusion. (As Provided).
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Update	2022/1/01