Features of art and design schools on the example of the southern Federal and Riga technical universities

Abstract

The article examines the issues of modern pedagogical science in the field of art and design activities on the example of universities in Russia and Latvia. A comparative analysis of approaches to the formation of creative skills for students while working on creative projects in the field of design, decorative and applied arts is performed. The main criteria for evaluating the final students’ results when working on art and design projects are also identified, as far as these criteria are similar or different depending on the region, province and countries where educational activities are conducted to prepare the designers and artists of decorative and applied arts. The novelty of this research is the choice of art and design areas for training specialists and a comparative analysis of two schools design methodology: in Latvia and Russia. The results are the analysis tasks of the research problem, namely, how different the students creative process is depending on the region or not stand out at all, if the teachers‘ criteria in grading art projects of future specialists are different, whether the quality of the students‘ professional training in the field of artistic and design activities differs in Latvia and Russia on the example of two Universities: Riga Technical University and Southern Federal University.