The Perspectives of Teachers and Students in the Art Education (12+2) Program, Arts Education College, Lao PDR, with Developmental Ideas

Abstract

The research is conducted to study the perspectives of teachers and students towards the art education curriculum (12+2), Arts Education College of Laos in order to analyze its development methods based on the curriculum users’ perspectives. The population in the research contains the program’s teachers and students including 11 teachers and 12 students who are studying for their last semester. Using the questionnaire created the answers are analyzed into averages and percentages in the following categories: the respondents’ profiles, the opinions towards the curriculum, the viewpoints towards the course and the open-ended questions. After that, the researcher generates the issues from the gathered information and uses them in the discussion of a focus group to find the methods of curriculum development, then concludes the results and suggests the development ideas. The subjects agreed with the curriculum by the mean of 3.79, a high level of agreement.