DESIGN EDUCATION IN UKRAINE: MANAGEMENT AND STRUCTURE

Abstract

The article deals with the key trends in the development of design education in Ukraine and the world, which allow to identify alternative prospects for the formation of this educational field and the changes that occur: in philosophical, cultural, psychological, sociological, artistic and pedagogical concepts of design education; in scientific approaches to the definition of theoretical and methodological principles of formation of leading trends and principles of development of design education; in substantiation of conceptual models of multilevel, continuous design education and designing a complex of organizational and methodological support for the implementation of the system of professional training of future designers (programs, textbooks, teaching support, didactic materials).The author emphasizes that the trends in the development of design education are changing due to the fact that there are new conditions for the functioning of artistic, aesthetic and design culture, consistent with the time of the form of human interaction and design. Identifying trends in design education in modern society is objectified by the natural processes of design development in terms of social modernization, the cultural situation of postmodernism, which determines a new level of interpretation of reality, where design is part of the cultural process. Theoretical interpretations of the concepts «design», «designer» and «design education» are due to differences in approaches in terms of philosophy, aesthetics, psychology, sociology, art history, professional pedagogy, production management theory and more. Comparative analysis of the definitions of these concepts allows us to see in them a reflection of different worldviews, the desire to assert what is visually perceived in the form of objects – the way of life of contemporaries. They re-veal the general idea of the disclosure of various types of artistic creativity, among which design is becoming increasingly prominent.