The Connections Between the Aesthetic Environment of a School and Student‘s Artistic Activity

The environment that surrounds us influences everybody who is inside it. However human also influences the environment, also the aesthetic environment. In the school as in the educational institution this interaction also exists. Aesthetical environment, aesthetics can not be separated from art. The notions of beaty and harmony combines them. So it is important to understand how the influence of aesthetic environment of a school comes out to the student and to his artistic activities. The aesthetic environment of a school is seductive, harmoinious environment formed by the people who work here and which satisfies their needs, the understanding of beauty and becomes a part of intercourse- its background. The artistic, aesthetic functions of the environment of a school are raised as the particular manifestations which develope student‘s personality and aesthetic taste, also as the manifestacions of peculiar microculture. So one of the conditions of the stirring up of the education is beatiful, aesthetic and comfortable evnironment. So the opening of the features by which the connections between the aesthetic environment of a school and student‘s artistic activity can exist and can be urgent is the urgent pedagogic problem. The aim of the investigation- to single out the features of the aesthetic environment of a school and also the features of student‘s artistic activity connections. The object of the investigation- the connections between the aesthetic environment of a school and student‘s artistic activity. The hypothesis of the investigation- the more beautiful and aesthetic environment, the better opportunity for the connection between the aesthetic environment of a school and student‘s artistic activity. The problems of the investigation- 1. To analyze and generalize the literature of this theme. 2. Reveal the student‘s peculiarities of the artistic activity. 3. To investigate student‘s point of view to the aesthetic environment of a school. 4. To clear up a teacher‘s point of view of the meaning of the aesthetic environment of a school to the student‘s artistic activity. 5. To generalize the features of the connections of the student‘s artistic activity with the aesthetic environment of a school. The reconnaissance investigation has been remained (N=30) seeking to clear up the student‘s point of view to the schools environment and the vision how to aesthetize it. Seeking to reveal the features of the environment of a school and the student‘s artistic features connections, the students of 104 Kaišiadorys Algirdas Brazauskas and Vaclovas Giržadas secondary school who attend the clubs of the artistic direction and 16 teachers who are situated with artistic activity have been questioned. The investigation revealed that student’s existence (communication, learning) in the aesthetic environment of a school induces his positive emotions, experiences and by them he gets bigger activity in the artistic activity. It has been established that the biggest part of the students who attend clubs of the artistic direction estimate the environment of their school very well or quite well, also they have desires and ideas to change it requesting their artistic abilities. The data of the empiric investigation showed that to absolute majority of the teachers of the artistic activity the artistic environment of a school is important. Their estimation with the respect of the environment is more critical than the student’s. Teachers express their estimations to aesthetize the environment orientating their students to the active artistic activity. The connections between the aesthetic environment of a school and student’s artistic activity reveal by these features: a.) a whish to change the environment of a school by aesthetizing it. b.) exhibiting the works of the artistic expression in the environment of the school c.) experiencing positive aesthetic emotions, aesthetizing the environment of a school. Key words: aesthetic environment, the aesthetic environment of a school, artistic activity.Švietimo akademijaVytauto Didžiojo universiteta