of human behavior and deeds. Culture is a filter through which a person percepts the world. Culture phenomenon can be subdivided into the following subgroups: internal, external, spir-itual, political, ecological, artistic, aesthetic, communicative etc. It should be considered as a part of an ideal creation and as an ideal based system in the context of human existence, where an ideal is considered as moral purity and consciousness improvement (Dario Sommer). The ideal is the center of a life sense idea and human spirituality. In the mentioned above context the following words of Fyodor Dostoyevskyi are relevant: both Man and nation cannot exist without the highest idea. The value system is a fundamental basis for a perfect existence. In turn, culture and arts are the most important tools for this. Arts draw our particular attention. We cannot imagine an Excellent Man who lives apart from it. The world-known Canadian culturologist Paul Shafer rightly admitted that studying arts should serve as a basis for general education. Arts "fill people with a spiritual fullness," "teach to express thoughts and feelings through images," form spiritual, moral and aesthetic ideals, emotional culture and a feedback to Beauty and Hatefulness, high art taste and aesthetic perception. Arts reflect advances and a culture level of a particular historical period, dominated aesthetic and artistic preferences and ideals. It can also show preferable examples of possible future. The art world teaches an indi-vidual the most difficult thing to do - live among real people through getting such experience that he did not have in his real life before (compassion together with the characters). It is urgent to implement into pedagogical practice the following idea of an American scientist D. Kagan.
The main point is that educational process has some features that allow us to consider it as a particular form of art. In addition, it has characteristics, which help us to identify it as an art image and, in some way, as an artwork. That is why any form of educational process should be considered as an energetic art performance, an act of human interaction and as a picture of art. This process encourages formation of general cultural knowledge, visual thinking, value con-sciousness, humanitarian worldview. The value of art in the context of looking for the purpose of human existence is in an opportunity to unify people around the highest spiritual ideals.
Moreover, it can be implemented through spiritual and moral deeds, ethics of human behavior, aspiration to beauty, overcoming "emotional still" aimed at creating an aesthetic world picture.
Conclusions
Culture and arts are the catalysts for appearance of excellent humans who have good souls, thoughts and deeds, who feel an urgent necessity to live in accordance with their conscience, to give people joy and happiness. The purity and light of these people are comparable with those perfect images, which are brightly represented in arts and nature. It comes to mind the follow-ing literary abstract, which is an excellent illustration to the mentioned above: "I saw a lily which was in dark swamp water. Everything around was rotted. However, the lily stayed pure like angel"s clothing. Then some waves appeared in the dark pond. They waggled the flower but any sport appeared on its surface." So people should become like those flowers. We have to remember that "we aren"t so civilized, conscious, kind and fair as we suppose. Actually, we are in the very beginning of our long walk to excellence. Our feeling of greatness and power is based just on the advances of the scientific and technological progress. But it isn"t helpful indeed for true human improvement" [Sommer, 2014: 19].
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Divided Universities: The Postcolonial Experience of
Contemporary Ukrainian Higher Education
Denys Svyrydenko - Doctor of Philosophy, Professor
National Pedagogical Dragomanov University
(Kyiv, Ukraine)
E-mail: [email protected]
The paper considers the problem of Ukrainian divided universities, which appear at the result of Revolution of Dignity, annexation of Crimea by Russia as well as formation of quasi-republics of the East of Ukraine. Most of educational institutions form these territories were evacuated (students and teaching stuff), but "twin universities" appeared using campus and facilities of migrated ones. Author demonstrates the heuristic potential of using the interdisciplinary approaches for understanding the essence of this situation applying metaphors like "university cloning", "university mitosis" and so on. This approach is strengthened by the ethical judgment through the basic axiological values of modern "idea of university" (freedom of thinking, academic freedom, institutional autonomy, will of knowledge and truth etc.) collected at Magna Charta Universitatum.
