Aesthetics in Education as Aesthetics of Life (Nikolai I. Kiyashchenko)

Abstract

The article conceptualizes the ideas about the aesthetic dominant of humanitar­ian knowledge and the importance of the works and scientific and educational activities of Nikolai I. Kiyashchenko for the consolidation of this dominance. The special importance of aesthetics as a science and practice of forming ideas about the harmony of personality and harmonious worldview is emphasized. Special attention is paid not only to the training course called “Aesthetics”, but to all training sessions where aesthetic knowledge is in demand. The understand­ing inherent in the works of Nikolai I. Kiyashchenko and important for scientific research devoted not only to art as a well-known sphere of aesthetic activity, but also to research devoted to man, his moral sphere and socio-cultural activity is noted. It is emphasized that aesthetics is of crucial importance for modern educa­tional process at all its levels, from school to higher education, from postgradu­ate studies to scientific studies of experienced scientists. This follows from the idea that aesthetics is a broad field of human intellectual activity. We present the efforts of Nikolai I. Kiyashchenko to unite researchers (at the level of con­ferences, joint scientific publications, work on grants). The attention of Niko­lai I. Kiyashchenko, teacher, mentor in a broad sense, to young researchers and their works is particularly noted. The fact that Kiyashchenko, an aesthetician, was also an educator is specifically evaluated, in connection with which the unique publication “Aesthetics of Life” is analyzed. It was intended for school­children and teachers who can work with teenagers. Problematization of aes­thetic knowledge and educational pathos turn the works of Nikolai I. Kiya­shchenko into a solid corpus, aesthetically significant and relevant.