Students' Attitudes towards Arts and Cultural Learning in the Slovenian Educational System

The paper presents the results of the research involving 552 university students from across Slovenia. The research explores students' cultural and artistic status, their attitudes towards/opinion on the inclusion of culture and arts in the education system, and their attitude towards education and the arts. The results show that students do not consider spiritual, cultural and aesthetic values to be of great importance. They believe that primary and secondary schools should focus more on the reading culture and Intermedia Arts, and higher education system should focus on the goals relating to the formation of positive attitudes towards the cultural heritage. Students from different study programmes agreed particularly on the need for team planning in the learning process, and on the importance of art education in the development of an individual's creative potential. They agreed less on the measures necessary for the improvement of the quality of arts education and the set of views related to the contents in the higher education of future preschool and school teachers. Results relating to the objectives of the research also show statistically significant differences between study programmes. Arts and cultural education in the education system was assigned higher importance by social sciences, preschool education and early primary education university students than by the natural sciences students.