Art traditions as a means of pupils’ music education in multicultural environment

Abstract

The article defines and presents the essence of the pedagogical potential of the Ukrainian and Hungarian artistic traditions in the musical and aesthetic education of younger students. The presence of contradictions between the powerful educational potential of Ukrainian and Hungarian artistic traditions and its ineffectiveness in the educational process of a comprehensive school justified the relevance of the research problem. The author clarifies the concept of "the interaction of artistic traditions," the structural and aesthetic unity which are auditory (popular poetic and musical creativity), visual (national artistic creativity) and audiovisual (folk choreography and theater) components. For the purpose of effective implementation of the cooperation between Ukrainian and Hungarian artistic traditions there were defined benchmarks to improve the content and methodical bases of music and aesthetic education of pupils in a multicultural environment - intercultural orientation of the educational process. The implementation of this principle in the process of music and aesthetic education will promote spiritual development of junior pupils on the basis of the formation of values-related attitude to the art of music of both peoples, mastering music and theoretical, music and aesthetic knowledge; mastering communicative means of intercultural interaction - native, official languages and artistic languages (that of music, literature, fine arts).