Modern trends in the development of aesthetic education in the Ukrainian and European educational space

The modern tendencies of the development of aesthetic education in the Ukrainian and European educational space are reveals and substantiates in the article, the place and importance of aesthetic education for the comprehensive and harmonious development of the personality are established its cultural identity in modern civilization conditions. Aesthetic is a qualitatively defined human relation to expressive forms of reality and the experience of this relation as a certain emotional state (pleasure, admiration, disgust, and so on). That is why the aesthetic education is oriented on the achievement of the personality of this state of attitude – emotionally indifferent, sensual, in the unity of comprehension and experience. The problem of aesthetic education in the modern system of Ukrainian education tends to be solved in line with classical aesthetics. It narrows, gives a secondary importance to the tasks of aesthetic education, carries it out in extra-curricular, extra-curricular forms, reduces the relevance of higher education, in particular in the process of preparing future teachers. Such a tendency in the space of modern postmodern culture may result in the deformation of the spiritual world of personality primitive aestheticism and hedonism, indifference, loss of sensuality to contemporary realities of the surrounding world, at the same time, excessive emotionality and idealization of the past (in particular the national one), perception and understanding of the present, individualism, alienation, etc. The model of the study of the theory and practice of aesthetic education in the conditions of the internationalization of higher education from the end of the XX – the beginning of the XXI century is based on the prospect of updating the content, forms and methods of teaching, which will help balance the balance of sensuality and rationalism in aesthetic education to supplement the Ukrainian paradigm of aesthetic education with a greater orientation on the effective affirmation of aesthetic ideals ―truths – beauty – good‖in everyday life, attitude to the environment, in personal and public relations, professional activity, etc., to overcome alienation, antagonism, to prevent the destruction of the human soul and the world.