ADDITIONAL EDUCATION AS THE MAIN RESOURCE FOR DEVELOPING THE SPHERE OF CULTURE

Abstract

Actualization of the role of the system of art education, aimed at identifying and teaching gifted children in the field of culture, the goal-setting of additional educational programs in the field of arts is caused by conceptual documents adopted at the highest state level over the past five years, as well as by sectoral bodies of state executive power. Measures to implement the state cultural policy determine the reform of the system of art education for the long-term period and are aimed primarily at solving the problem of recreating the interaction vertical between regional cultural management authorities and municipalities concer­ning the functioning of children’s art schools and the prospects for their development, which is absent in a number of constituent entities of the Russian Federation. In the situation of management decentralization, which arose as a result of the division of powers between federal, regional and local government bodies, as well as the weakening of creative and methodical links between children’s art schools, professional and higher educational organizations, the root cause of which is, among other things, departmental disunity, some coordination of the activities of additional education institutions and cultural authorities of subjects of the Russian Federation is assigned to regional educational and methodical (resource) centers. The article considers the modern problems of functioning and interaction of the institutions of additional education in the sphere of culture (children’s art schools according to the types of arts) and additional professio­nal education (educational and methodical centers). Particular attention is paid to the historically established relationship between the children’s art schools (according to the types of arts) and the educational and methodical centers (methodical offices), which are tasked with the scientific, methodical and information support of the activities of children’s art schools. On the basis of a retrospective analysis of the state of regional educational and methodical centers, a forecast is given for their development in the context of implementation of the state cultural policy at the stage of implementation of the Action Plan (“Road Map”) for the Perspective Development of Children’s Art Schools According to the Types of Arts for 2018—2022. This document, approved in January 2018, aims to bring together the efforts of the Ministry of Culture of Russia and the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, emphasizes the task of preserving and developing the network of children’s art schools, which are the first link in the Russian three-tiered system of art education, which has no analogues in the world educational space. Based on the examples and performance indicators of children’s art schools in the Kirov Region, the author makes a forecast of the variability of decisions of the founders of regional educational and methodical centers in the post-reform period, emphasizes the importance of understanding the role of the arts education system, especially the additional, as the main resource for developing the cultural space of regions and whole country.