Study of Performing Barriers of Art Lessons from the Viewpoints of the Primary School Teachers of Isfahan

The purpose of this study was to investigate the hindrances which elementary-school teachers encounter in teaching art courses in the six fold municipal districts of Isfahan. The sample of this study was drawn from 356 teachers of Isfahan in academic year 2012 – 2013. A gender- and quantity-based stratified random sampling technique was utilized for this study. A descriptive observational research design was opted. For the purposes of this study, a 45-item questionnaire was developed and used by the researcher. This questionnaire enjoys face and content validity and its reliability has been measured through Cronbach’s alpha, which was 0.871. For statistical analyses of the data, a one-sample t-test, an independent-sample t-test and F of ANOVA were run. According to the results of the study, the following reasons can be enumerated as the factors which hinder teaching art courses: teachers’ negative attitude, lack of skilled teachers, teachers’ lack of familiarity with proper teaching methods, lack of facilities and defective assessment in art courses as above-average-level factors; principals’ lack of awareness of the art’s role as an average-level factor; and planners’ and officials’ negligence, ignorance of the importance of art on the part of parents as below-average factors.