Wychowanie w sztuce jako koncepcja edukacji kulturalnej dziecka

Abstract

Art — because of Its particular educational values — has been an inherent factor in the process of education of a child. However, as the pedagogical practice shows, it is traditional art, which serves mainly as a tool or a peculiar educational material. It is rarely treated as a self-contained quality, characteristic of readiness for dialogue and communication. It is worth becoming aware of the fact that the cultural and esthetic education can become a ‘propagator’ of unauthentic and non-dialogical existence aiming at an annihilation of a man in the social and personal sense without the consideration of such dialogical dimension of art Only in a dialogue with another man, nature, work of art the most important abilities of a man can be finally revealed — namely an ability to experience and understand the world and the man himself. The concept of upbringing in art is an attempt at searching for new possibilities associated with the presence of art in education. The upbringing in art is a process, which is based on a dialogue and is favorable to a creation of a dialogical stand, which is an undisturbed readiness for mutual establishment of close relations, cognition, understanding, it is not consciously assuming subordination, exploitation or a change with a simultaneous preservation of own identity. This process begins with an authentic meeting of a child with art and takes place in sufficient time, In undetermined situations, through Interaction, which does not assume any aims, but activates the individual mechanisms of transgression. This encounter does not guarantee an optimal reception of art but strengthens a stance of ‘being vigilant to art’ and ‘vigilant to values’ at the same time. It is a process thanks to which a person, an independent being acquires openness, tolerance, sensitivity, creative abilities, courage, searching for beauty, aspiring after freedom — always In a dialog with Another.