DECORATIVE AND APPLIED ART AS A MEANS OF FORMING STUDENTS’ CREATIVE ACTIVITY

Abstract

The article discusses a concept of “creative activity”, defines essential content of this concept. The creative activity of a person is determined by the properties of such a person, which are manifested in his activity, as innovativeness, originality of ideas, creativity. These are personality traits by which a person is capable of modernizing anything in the world. The author substantiates the need for attention to work in creative activity, which finds its realization in every sphere of human life, ensuring the finding of qualitatively new solutions to tasks that constantly arise before society. The criteria for assessing levels of development of creative activity of students are determined. The characteristic of each of the presented criteria is given. The degrees of development of both creative abilities and creative activity of students are characterized as low, medium and high. The authors conclude that one of the main pedagogical conditions for the development of creative abilities and creative activity of students is a creative attitude to professional activity, which ensures the involvement of the student in the search for scientific, artistic, art history, ethnographic material.