Arts Education in the Development of the Personality of the Next Generation of Future Music Teachers: History and Modernity

The article focuses on the problem of the future music teacher’s comprehensive personal development, which is the basis of their professional competence, pedagogical skill and spiritual culture, relevant to modern education. The purpose of the study is a retrospective and comparative analysis of the problem of comprehensive personal development of the future music art teacher of a new generation, based on the historical and pedagogical experience of the organization of art education in the collegiums of Left-bank Ukraine (18th-the early 19th centuries), as they laid the groundwork for the formation and development of general and professional art education; to illustrate the practical implementation of the historical and pedagogical experience of art education organization in the collegiums of Left-bank Ukraine (18th-the early 19th centuries) on the comprehensive development of the future music teacher personality in higher educational institutions. Methods. The research methods used by the author were analysis, synthesis, systematisation, comparison and generalisation. Results. Modernization of art education in Ukraine aims to improve the spiritual and creative development of personality, humanization and humanitarization of educational process in educational institutions of different types. Consequently, this requires searching for optimal approaches to the organization of art education in higher educational establishments, which would focus on the comprehensive development and professional training of future music teachers as carriers and transmitters of national culture. Conclusions. The author has noted that the analysis and creative insight into the historical and pedagogical experience of art education organization in the collegiums of the Left Bank Ukraine (18th-the early 19th centuries) determines the possibility of its use in modern higher educational institutions for comprehensive individual development of future music art teachers, which is the basis of their professional competence, teaching skills and spiritual culture. The author has presented the transformation of progressive ideas of historical and pedagogical experience of the organization of art education in the collegiums of Left-bank Ukraine (18th-the early 19th centuries). Moreover, the author has defined the forms of organizing educational and extracurricular cultural and artistic activities of future music teachers at higher pedagogical educational institutions, namely: 1) individual classes in «Additional musical instrument», «Voice production», «Choir conducting», «Main musical instrument» and group (practical) classes in artistic disciplines, which are the part of the educational program «Secondary education (Musical art)» on the training of future music teachers; 2) staging and theatricalization, which is implemented in the course of the educational discipline «Staging a children's musical performance» and organizing creative student theater groups to perform theatrical actions: 3) vocal and choral groups in an educational institution: 4) extracurricular cultural and artistic activities.