THE ESSENCE OF AESTHETIC EDUCATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

Abstract

In this scientific article the essence of aesthetic education is determined, scientific approaches to the interpretation of the concept of "aesthetic education" are considered. The views of contemporary scholars differ regarding the essence of aesthetic education with indication of the need to educate aesthetic culture of modern young people.

At the present stage, the problems of aesthetic education of pupils and students are considered in terms of the spiritual culture of the individual and the emphasis on artistic and aesthetic education. The essence of aesthetic education in high school is connected with the peculiarities of goals, content, forms and methods of organization of educational work in higher educational institutions, age and socio-cultural peculiarities of students as a social group.

The main tasks of aesthetic education, which are represented in this article are the following: education of the sense of beauty in personality; formation of skills and abilities to create beauty in everyday life; formation of the ability to distinguish beauty from ugly; formation of the ability to live according to the laws of spiritual beauty.

The author conducted generalization of theoretical and methodological principles of aesthetic education of students, researches of national scientists and analysis of real practices, which allows to determine the most important factors that causes the state of aesthetic education in higher educational institutions: aesthetic education and aesthetic awareness, interest in arts and ability to perceive aesthetically and evaluate from the point of view of the universal and national aesthetic ideal.

The content of aesthetic education comprises aesthetic perception, aesthetic judgments, aesthetic knowledge, aesthetic culture, aesthetic ideals, aesthetic feelings, aesthetic inner turmoil, aesthetic pleasure, aesthetic tastes, aesthetic activity. In complex, these categories reveal the essence of aesthetic education, expand its palette, make up its structure. The structure of aesthetic education consists of professional competence and professionalism, which are naturally linked with creativity, artistic and aesthetic vision of the results of your work.