Landscaping of General Secondary Education Institutions and its influence on the Formation of Schoolchildren's Artistic Taste

Abstract

The article considers the formation of schoolchildren's artistic and aesthetic taste and the influence of landscaping of school green areas on this process. During natural sciences, students should form the concept of the beauty of plant objects, the relationship of individual-personal reaction, and the object's quality. The purpose of education in this context should be the consistent implementation of the humanistic principle - a careful attitude to the inner world, his interests and needs, enrichment of his spiritual potential. Achieving this goal is facilitated by introducing the educational process of a personality-oriented approach aimed at the holistic development of a student's personality. The formation of children's artistic and aesthetic taste is one of the urgent problems of the harmonious development of personality, the successful solution of which improves the quality of pedagogical process in general secondary education. Feelings and understanding of beauty, artistic and aesthetic taste are not formed independently. They should be nurtured, consistently formed and developed. One of the top places in the formation of aesthetic taste is studying the decorative qualities of woody and herbaceous plants in the green areas of secondary schools. Both lessons of subjects of a natural cycle and practical classes of circles can be conducted on their basis. Successfully designed green space develops students' aesthetic perception of form and space, symmetry and asymmetry, a combination of light and shadow, texture and colour, i. e. the formation of artistic and aesthetic taste. Plantations of tree plants and flower arrangements contribute to the formation of the concept of the beauty of plant objects, the relationship of individual-personal reaction and the quality of the object. Conducting classes on the territory of green areas of educational institutions compensates for the lack of communication with wildlife, forms the childrens' artistic and aesthetic taste, cultivates a caring attitude to the environment.