Art Education System and Cultural Industries in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)
The article defines features and prospects of development of the state system of vocational and preprofessional training for the cultural sector in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). It justifies the need for capacity building in education sphere, arts and culture including through the development of commercial services on defining tasks for creation, preservation and retranslation of cultural products. The article describes an interaction of art education system and the process of cultural industries formation in the region. It also depicts their relationship with the issues of national identity. The article lists the characteristics and basic parameters of preprofessional organizations, secondary and higher professional education. Unique educational institutions are the pride of the region that provide progressive development of all the culture branches including commercial cultural industries, which meet the public demand for creation of conditions for the preservation of national identity. The author concludes that vocational education is compulsory for successful function of the cultural sector that ensures achievements in the national and global scale. Continuity preservation among cult leaders, accumulation of generations experience in dissemination of professional knowledge, significant results in the training of students is performed well due to sustained and systematic state policy in the field of training programs. The system of educational institutions of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) provides it with completion of labor resources in all the major areas of art and culture. The author considers specifics of art education that determines the formation of a complex reproduction system of professional staff. It characterizes distinctive features of educational process in the sphere of culture. The paper gives examples of the methods diversity, training technologies and retraining of professional artists.