Mokytojų teikiamų preferencijų dizaino dalyko tikslams ypatumai
Peculiarities Developing Teachers' Preferences for the Goals of the Design Course

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the significance of the goals, objectives and tasks of the design course in educational process. Preferences, demonstrated by teachers of art, design and technologies to the goals, objectives and tasks of the design course, the assessment of their significance and perspectives for further development of the course as well as possible links with the current social, cultural and philosophical tendencies are analysed. In the 2003 curriculum of the secondary comprehensive school the course in art includes the fine and applied arts, architecture, folk art, design, contemporary visual art and art criticism. The design subject did not exist in the curriculum of 1997 and 1998. Being closely related to technical, scientific and artistic training the subject of design as a specific sphere of activity has not yet been sufficiently analysed and disclosed in the context of artistic education and thus has become an urgent educational problem designing the content of education. Having analysed the goals, objectives and tasks of the design subject as well as teachers' preferences in this respect the following conclusions have been made: • The goals, objectives and tasks of the design subject reflect the main goals of artistic education and create conditions to educate uie personality as an active perceiver and consumer of art and environment; • Preferences demonstrated by teachers of art (design, art, technologies) with regard to the goals, objectives and tasks of the design subject reflect the main competences in art and aesthetics, creative, spiritual and physical abilities without stressing the contribution of cognitive theoretical knowledge into those processes what allows to concentrate on the development of theoretical knowledge possessed by teachers; • Artistic education by the design subject is one of the ways to perceive the significance of visuality stressed by post-modernism and educate abilities of aesthetic perception relying on the environment of objects; • It is possible to completely reveal fullness and spirituality of human nature relying on the subject of design, which includes the perception of the environment of objects, art and culture and cognitive and sensual processes.

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