The Determination Criteria of the Periods of Formation of Students’ Value Orientations at the Institutions of Higher Art Education in Ukraine ; Критерії визначення етапів формування «ціннісних орієнтацій» студентів вищих навчальних закладів мистецького профілю України

The study of students’ value orientations plays a special role in determining the content of psycho- pedagogical support of a young person during the lifetime, including professional development, which is confirmed in the inextinguishable interest of the researchers and practitioners to this issue. A socially significant nature of value orientations prevents the separation of consideration of this phenomenon from the general interests of the society, social and political trends of development in a particular historical period. Periodization as a distribution of historical and pedagogical reality into periods which are qualitatively different from each other is indispensable means of understanding of any historical events and prediction of their possible future development. However, a balanced periodization of value orientations of the art students has never been determined. The objectives of this study are to expose the essence of the creative process in an artistically-pedagogical process, to substantiate and characterize the criteria for period division of the process of forming of the value orientations of students of higher art educational establishments of Ukraine in the ХХ-th century, to define the content, methodology and approaches to this phenomenon investigation on the certain stage of development of higher professional school and scientifically-pedagogical theory on the whole. It was shown that the formation of the students’ value orientations is a complex process that depends on many factors (i.e. an individual’s age characteristics, historical and political conditions , socio-cultural factors, educational content, forms and methods of educational interaction between participants of the educational process at higher school etc.), which are constantly changing. Taken together, the results of the study indicate the relative conditional character of such periodization. Thus, the following criteria have been included into the basis for determining stages of the periodization: –Consideration of the ...