Role and Significance of Art Education at European Schools
Processes connected with the improvement of the domestic system of education require the search for new approaches to designing aims, tasks, contents of the academic process and teacher training. Qualitative changes are also connected with teaching art disciplines at comprehensive schools. In this connection an analysis of the model of teaching Art disciplines in the countries of the European Union is urgent.Publications by foreign scholars, scientific and practical events demonstrate the recent decade’s tendencies in the European system of education of the increase of the role and the significance of art education in shaping a multifaceted personality, training them to choose a career. The role and significance of the academic disciplines of Art sphere in European countries on the level of primary and secondary schools are considered in the article. Conceptual approaches to setting the goals and tasks of art education, distribution of academic hours, requirements to specialist training, different forms of cooperation between the school and institutions of culture and art demonstrate a considerable potential of art education in shaping initiative, creative abilities, personality cultural self-identification.