The Role of Artistic Competences in the Formation of the Patriotic Values of the Pupils of Rural Educational Complexes

Стаття розкриває значущість формування мистецької компетентності у вихованні патріотичних цінностей учнів сільських навчально-виховних комплексів. З’ясовано сутність поняття «компетентність», «компетенція», «мистецька компетентність» особистості. Розглянуто особливості формування у вихованців мистецької компетентності музичного, образотворчого та хореографічного видів мистецтв. Виявлено, що успіх патріотичного виховання засобами мистецтва можливий завдяки спланованому, системному прилученню вихованців із дошкільного віку до різноманітних видів мистецької діяльності.The article reveals the significance of artistic competence in the education of patriotic values of the students of rural educational systems. The essence of the concept «competence», «creative competence of the individual» are clarified. The peculiarities of formation of the pupils’ artistic competence of music, visual and choreographic arts are defined. It is revealed that the success of patriotic education through art is possible through planned, systematic inclusion of the pupils at preschool age to different kinds of artistic activity. Valuable for our study is the selection of the dominant species of the arts (music and visual) and synthetic (choreography and others) covered in the curriculum «Art» for the younger students by L. Masol. The specific terms of music, dance, fine art are used for the children of primary school age at the lessons. The main thing for the author is «to preserve the unity of the artistic image, which perceived emotionally, and the concept that is being developed by the mind, and thus to form the students’ artistic and associative thinking, develop the ability to transfer acquired knowledge, ideas, skills in related and distant spiritual and aesthetic spheres. And this is a real step to creativity». Therefore, in a rural training educational complex it is important to create conditions for the successful formation of artistic competence, which increases the level of patriotic education of children, namely: maximum taking into account the age and individual characteristics of children from preschool to school age, the implementation of the subject-to-subject relations between a pupil and a teacher as the basis of personality-oriented approach, the creation of the educational environment, adherence to the programme of music lessons, fine arts, choreography in the educational work of the educational complex, ensuring the development of artistic creativity of pupils, use a variety of forms and methods of educational work with children in various areas of art education, to ensure continuity of patriotic education among all age groups, close communication and interaction between a family and an educational complex. The author stresses that introducing the pupils of rural educational complexes with folk music, Cossack art professional music and modern musical works is a way of mastering the art competences of spiritual revival of the Ukrainian nation. The conducted theoretical research does not cover all the aspects of the problem and outlines the prospects for further research in maintaining a realization in the sphere of mastering of artistic competence