VOCATION AND CAREER CHOICE IN HIGHER ART EDUCATION

Abstract

Music education in the early 21st century is aimed at a new educational paradigm in the context of post-non-classical art pedagogy. An integral feature of modern art education is focus on formation of an artist with a bright, multifaceted and creative individuality, as well as vocation for potential career choice. It means an individual’s awareness of the conditions and requirements of social existence, the readiness and ability to respond to social changes and needs, to hear and understand one’s personal calling in them. Vocation is an ethical phenomenon, a manifestation of motivation to achieve intangible benefits or do good. At the same time, vocation is an existential phenomenon. A person lives in a vocation, seeks it for himself, feels the futility of existence without it. In general, in applied research, vocation is associated with a certain human activity, mainly professional. Thus, pedagogical activity is combined with a professional vocation. These processes take place through the assimilation of the experience of previous generations and contemporaries, where the individual is involved in the cultural and spiritual space of his community. The sense of art education is to focus a person’s attention on the purpose of his creative activity, on understanding and choosing the good that he wants to grasp and realize in his life. Therefore, it is relevant to discuss the possibilities of practical implementation of the vocation factor in the system of music education and specialists training in this field. This provides an opportunity to form a new type of mentality and behavior of people, in which the motive of the individual’s self-development plays a more significant role.