MODERN TRENDS IN ART EDUCATION AS A RESPONSE TO SOCIO-CULTURAL CHALLENGES

Abstract

The article provides an overview of artistic and aesthetic educational practices in different countries of the world. The author draws attention to the need to apply modern technologies and methods in the pedagogy of art that correspond to the information age. Based on the examples of the organization of art education and aesthetic education in different countries, the main pedagogical principles on which the education system in the world is built: the balance of the intellectual and emotional development of schoolchildren, sociocultural projects in education, the use of computer technologies in teaching art, the use of mentoring by cultural figures over students. The author concludes that culture becomes the most important factor in solving social and even political problems, a possible alternative in choosing options for future world development. All this increases the importance of art in the lives of schoolchildren. And today we must find new ways of development, to use examples of other countries without losing the unique national experience of teaching art.