EDUCATION FOR CITIZENSSHIP OF PRIMARY SCHOOLCHILDREN IN INTEGRATED ART LESSONS

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of the development of civic qualities of a junior student personality in the process of studying the integrated course “Art” in primary school. The semantic aspect of the concept of «citizenship» is revealed; its components such as sense of self-worth, inner freedom of the individual, discipline, respect and trust in state power, readiness to perform their civic duties in a harmonious combination of patriotic, national and universal feelings are distinguished. In this context, the substantiation of new content, forms and methods, innovative technologies of education for citizenship, adequate for modern social and pedagogical realities, acquires special importance. Conceptual provisions of civic education have been developed in the domestic pedagogical science. The purpose of this article is to find out the ways of effective educational tasks implementing by a teacher in the process of teaching the integrated course “Art”.Modern Ukrainian scholars-educators attached special importance to this problem and studied its various aspects: conceptual provision was defined by O. Vyshnevskyi and O. Sukhomlynska; psychological and pedagogical principles – I. Bekh, M. Boryshevsky, O. Kyrychuk. The work of O. Dokukina, M. Zaderikhin, U. Ketsyk, V. Rud, L. Korinna, D. Krytska and L. Rekhteta are relevant to the content of our research.Researchers do not pay attention to the problem of using integrated subjects in particular “Art” in the education of students’ citizenship.The article presents a thorough analysis of textbooks for primary school on the integrated course “Art”, which are important means of knowledge and creative skills developing in the art of music, set out in accordance with the purpose of teaching and implementation of educational tasks for the formation of junior schoolchildren citizenship.
 Keywords: civic education; content of education; integrated course; component of citizenship; textbook; folk song; lullaby; calendar rituals; national identity; native language.