Shapinskaya, E. N., Kiyaschenko, N. I. The Dialogue about Esthetic Up-Education: the Crisis of Values and Ways to Overcome it

Abstract: The subject under research is the esthetic education as an important factor in formation of esthetic views and the system of values of a modern human. At the present time esthetic education is experiencing a crisis caused by the transformation of value orientations in a modern society and fragmentation of the cultural environment under the influence of both post-modernistic tendencies and global IT development. The need for esthetic education of a person of the 21st century is uncontroversial. The authors of the present research share their views and solutions of the problem. In their research they have used such approaches as the analysis of sources, diachronic approach to analyzing various systems of esthetic education, the philosophical and cultural approach to a number of cultural practices of modern times. The article is written in a form of a dialogue which allows to express different points of view on the problem of esthetic education and the role of esthetic views in the system of values of a modern human. Dialogue is an important form of a philosophical discourse allowing not only to compare different points of view but also to invite all those who are interested into the discussion and create the polylogue space for the discussion. The authors offer to create a new model of esthetic education that would combine both traditional approaches and cultural practices that have been popular among youth but haven’t acquired the institutional status.

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