FOLK CULTURE AS A MEANS OF AESTHETIC EDUCATION OF STUDENTS

Abstract

The article is dedicated to a problem of using the pedagogical potential of popular culture in the aesthetic education of schoolchildren. The nature of popular culture and the creative activities of teenagers, during which they use traditional images of folk art, help to form a sense of unity, allow the person to become a part of history, to become involved in the system of relationships between people from the past, to get closer to nature and to realize their own unity with the world around them. The authors do an analysis of psychological and pedagogical literature to define the basics and importance of popular culture in the aesthetic education of the younger generation. The main areas of aesthetic education of schoolchildren based on the pedagogical potential of popular culture have been defined. Particular attention is paid to the selection of general, special and unique in the aesthetic education of schoolchildren on the basis of the inclusion of popular culture in the educational process of the school and art school in the system of additional education.