Formation of artistic and constructive thinking of students at the lessons of labor education by mastering techniques of decorating folk costumes

The purpose of the present paper is to analyze and find ways to solve the problem facing the modern school–the development of creative potential of schoolchildren as a means of forming a competent and creative person. As a result of studying the experience of teaching in schools the lessons of labor at the example of a sewing affair, one can conclude that there are contradictions between the government's declared importance of sewing affair and the actual state of schools and inter-school workshops. There is a difference between the growing demand in the labor market for professionals of sewing production and their lack of preparation for this activity at school. There is also a difference between the growing requirements for artistic and design activities of schoolchildren and the insufficient level of scientific and methodological support for this activity. The author systematized the information on the formation of artistic-constructive thinking in schoolchildren and the importance of mastering the techniques of folk crafts. The decoration of clothes and the manufacture of clothing is an important means of educating a harmoniously developed personality, developing its moral, labor, aesthetic and technological culture. The structure of constructive thinking consists of two types of thinking: convergent (necessary to find the only correct solution to the problem) and divergent thinking. The practical significance of the study is the proposal for the development of artistic-constructive thinking and patriotic education by studying national clothes to hold special lessons of various types: lessons on the study of works of folk art; national clothing assessment lessons; lessons in mastering the skills and abilities of manufacturing traditional elements and types of embellishment of national clothes; lessons on creating own artwork; integrated lessons. This will consolidate the positive experience of creative individual activity, manifestation of autonomy and in the further life will develop artistic-constructive thinking.