Historical background of artistic education in Latvia

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.8202426087

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• Keywords: Artistic culture, artistic education, teacher training, drawing teaching.

• Abstract: Up to the present day, certain experience in educating art teachers has been accumulated in Latvia. The progressive system of artistic education in the life of Latvia was formed in the 19th century in the context of artistic culture. By the 20s the authors who had acquired European education became known. They initiated the study of the issues of artistic pedagogy as the issues of artistic education. The 1920s and 1930s are of special interest – these two decades started the process of the formation of the new Republic. As the result, Artistic Education in 1920-30 following the ideas of the founders has been viewed differently: as the means of attracting people to the national culture; as the area of the specific artistic education on the national basis in special and comprehensive schools. The goal of the article is to study the importance of art education in the teacher training process, as well as to find out the ways the methods of teaching drawing in the 1920s and 1930s were used. Experience of other countries helped in creating the approach to teaching drawing in the schools of Latvia, with the specific features and conditions of our country taken into consideration. In the research process, there were analyzed spiritual pre-conditions in the formation of artistic education, the goals and tasks of art education in this period. The theoretical methods of study: to analyze periodical materials, the training devices, and special literature in art and pedagogy. The restored historically established experience gives an opportunity to prove its idealistic and positive character. It contains rational positive initiatives as well. The implication of which will allow perfecting the system of artistic education on the basis of the national identity of a culture. During the 21st-century living side by side with new technologies and reacting to the needs of the actual life, they will become the cornerstone for the establishment and development of the new important aspects in the teacher training process and artistic education in the school.