FORMATION OF THE PROFESSIONAL THINKING OF STUDENTS-DESIGNERS BY MEANS OF PHOTOGRAPHY AS A MODERN FORM OF ART

Abstract

The professional thinking depends on the curriculum and organization of educational process in high school. It is devoted to formation of professional qualities of a designer, which include general, humanitarian, technical, economic, and art areas of education. The current tendency of the educational process of high school is directed to the development of general professional thinking as the main component of the professional and art culture the individual. Photo art is seen as one of the ways of practical language acquisition of modern visual culture at the first stage of education. Photo is seen as a means of creative self-representation of an artistic outlook on reality, changes and phenomena undergoing in a society. It is also considered as a means of personal attitude to these phenomena and a way of social interaction on the next stage of educational process in high school. A specific feature of photography as an art form is the documentality, authenticity of the image, and the ability to perpetuate the moment. The specific feature of an artistic image in photography is that it is a visual image of documentary significance. Photography gives an image that combines artistic expressiveness with authenticity and embodies an essential moment of reality in a frozen image. The criteria and indicators of the professional thinking of a designer-specialist are: value attitude to project activities, professional competence, creativity, reflection of personal and professional development, emotional and communicative criteria. The model of the professional culture of a designer student is a system of his social-psychological, educational and production characteristics, in which the value attitude to the designer’s professional activity, professional knowledge, theoretical and practical skills and socially significant personality qualities are integrated. The optimal method of learning is a synthetic method of learning. Such a system ensures the versatile development of future talents and the achievement of a new unity in creativity. Along with practical training, there is spiritual training, aesthetic and social development of students. The basic pedagogical concept of design education is the social activity of the creative personality, its ability to perceive changes occurring in social and spiritual life.