Delphi method collected the opinion of Croatian experts from various scientific fields for the doctoral thesis Visual Culture as a new paradigm of Visual art teaching. The results show the views of experts in curriculum studies, art theory, art education, and art history education. The experts were asked: How will visual culture influence the change in the paradigm of Visual Art teaching in the future? Three rounds of expressing opinions were conducted until a consensus was reached. Experts' opinions were categorized according to the following criteria: methodological changes in the approach to teaching art, the impact of visual culture on young people, the impact of visual culture on curricula, the relationship between fine art and visual culture, and the interdisciplinary approach.
According to the highlighted problem, the following research questions were asked:
1. Does visual education in modern times require a change of research interests from the work of art to the conditions of visuality in which seeing takes place?
The new concept of teaching Visual Art should focus on researching the expanded field of visuality, which could be achieved through a thematic approach to the contents of the new curriculum, which opens up space for conceptually dealing with visuals.
2. Due to the interdisciplinary character of visual culture, is it necessary to supplement historical-artistic methods with a multidisciplinary and non-disciplinary approach to the image?
Future changes should focus on research and new approaches to image interpretation to supplement the interpretation according to the language model established in current practice. One of the possible models can be Mitchell's model of historicization (historical time of origin - original context), anachronization (time in which it is observed - contemporary context), and decontextualization (interpretation outside established norms - new context), but only after scientific research and examination in pedagogical practice.
3. Do the contents of visual culture connect learning about art with the student's everyday experience?
Visual culture's influence is crucial for young people's upbringing and education because it forms a large part of their everyday life and affects identity formation and social aspects. Although until recently, it was in the status of Eisner's zero curriculum, the new subject curriculum of Visual Art and Culture has expanded the teaching content to include film, photography, televis...