Artistic and aesthetic innovations of art education used while training future teachers of Music and Choreography

The article substantiates the conditionality of the quality of education regarding innovations that are caused by changes in the sociocultural space and the reform of education, which actualizes its prognostic and innovative character. The purpose of the article is to highlight the results of scientific research on the problems of artistic and aesthetic innovations in the art education and the development of the artistic and innovative competence of future teachers of Musical Arts and Choreography. The author has presented course and results of a comprehensive study which was carried out in the framework of the inter-department scientific theme “Methodology and methods of professional training aimed at future teachers of Musical Arts and Choreography in the context of artistic and aesthetic innovations in art education”. Theoretical and empirical methods, a generalization of the analysis of pedagogical experience and the results of experimental studies were applied. A classification of artistic and aesthetic innovations in art education has been proposed. The essence of artistic and aesthetic innovations has been explained; the essence and structure of the artistic and innovative competence of future teachers of Musical Arts and Choreography have been determined. The criteria and indicators for assessing this professional quality have been developed. The complex nature of the scientific topic made it possible to attract a number of dissertation studies to the solution of the set tasks in the framework of which certain positions of the system as well as qualities, knowledge, skills and experience relevant to the artistic and innovative competence were checked. Summarizing the results of the study made it possible to establish the conformity of its organizational, methodological and content-centred components with the relevant qualification clusters: knowledge, skills, communications, autonomy and responsibility. The obtained results are confirmed by experimental verification and an increase in the quantity and quality of the undergraduate and postgraduate students' creative achievements in competitions, contests and art festivals.