Мистецько-творча компетентність як необхідна складова естетичної культури дітей у контексті наступності дошкільної та початкової освіти

The article highlights the ways of organizing the artistic space of children in educational institutions, which require new approaches aimed at revealing the algorithm of artistic interaction between the teacher and children, directing all efforts to the development of the preschooler's intelligence, his emotional sphere. The formation of artistic competence is a way of humanizing and aestheticizing the pedagogical process and the humanistic position of the teacher, which involves the ability to take responsibility for the fate of the child, his life, spiritual and psychological comfort; focus on the organization of a humane pedagogical process in preschool and primary education, the adequacy of artistic values, the flexibility of professional thinking, the presence of a professional humane orientation. The article is devoted to the current problems of the formation of the aesthetic culture of the younger generation – children of preschool and primary school age. On the basis of empirical research, the pedagogical potential and prospects of methods and forms of art pedagogy in the context of the continuity of preschool and primary education are presented, the key approaches to the definition and characteristics of the concepts of "artistic competence" and "aesthetic culture" in modern psychological and pedagogical research are highlighted and summarized. The essence and significance of aesthetic culture in the spiritual development of a child's personality, art pedagogy as a special direction and the conditions under which education, upbringing and development of a child takes place on the basis of art are determined. The special role of the teacher in the process of aesthetic education of children of preschool and primary school age, development of their emotional sphere, is clarified. As a result of the study, the factors affecting the formation of positive dynamics of the formation of artistic competence in preschool age and its development in primary school age were determined. The article reveals the peculiarities of the formation of artistic competence of children in the conditions of the educational process with the aim of forming the general and aesthetic culture of younger schoolchildren. The authors of the article present the ways and means of forming the artistic and aesthetic competence of children of preschool and primary school age.