PATRIOTIC EDUCATION AND ART EDUCATION OF STUDENTS OF PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITIES IN THE CONDITIONS OF THE INTERNATIONAL PLEIN AIR IN BELARUS AND RUSSIA
Authors:   Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University, Novosibirsk, Russia, Sokolov M.V. , Kucherevskaya M.O. ,   Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University, Novosibirsk, Russia, Shalyapin O.V. ,   Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University, Novosibirsk, Russia, Kobachevskaya S.M. ,   Belarusian State Pedagogical University named after Maxim Tank, Minsk, Republic of Belarus
Published: December 2024

Art education can play a certain role in the formation and development of a sense of patriotism, citizenship, respect for the memory of the defenders of the Fatherland. The resources of art education are currently used in the patriotic education of students of pedagogical universities. The purpose of the study is to substantiate the participation of students of art profiles of training pedagogical universities in international projects on organizing and holding student plein airs as a mechanism contributing to the patriotic education of youth and the development of the system of art education of the fraternal peoples of Russia and Belarus. The study is based on the axiological and personality-oriented approaches, which allow, on the one hand, to identify the influence of creative activity in the international plein air on the formation of patriotic feelings of students of pedagogical universities; and on the other hand, to ensure the practice of building an individual educational route for students of art faculties of pedagogical universities. We have implemented an international project on patriotic education and art education in cooperation between pedagogical universities of Belarus and Russia. In the course of the project implementation, an exchange of delegations of students majoring in art training from partner universities took place. Belarusian students took part in the international plein air in Novosibirsk, and Russian students took part in it in Minsk. The plein air became an effective environment for developing artistic and creative skills and patriotic education of students. It contributed to the students’ readiness to organize patriotic education in their future professional and pedagogical activities. The cooperation between pedagogical universities of Russia and Belarus allowed the researchers to obtain the following results: participation of 425 students in the International Student Art Competition “Without Borders”; participation of the competition winners in the international student plein air at places of military and labor glory in Russia and Belarus; specification of the content of students’ research work within the framework of art education for the purposes of patriotic education of youth; activation of students’ artistic abilities based on the emotional and figurative perception of objects of material culture, testifying to the contribution of the Soviet people to the defeat of Nazism and the labor valor of people in the rear; development and implementation of an individual educational route in the international plein air; embodiment of the creative result in the author's product of the plein air; formation of online and offline reporting exhibitions in partner universities from among student works completed in the plein air at places of military and labor glory; students' awareness of their participation in the international plein air as a mechanism of patriotic education.