Institutionalised educational systems as a component of the intangible cultural legacy of Ukraine

Abstract

In recent years, there has been an intensification of broad discussion of the problem of preserving intangible cultural legacy in the scientific, cultural, and social environment. Therewith, art education as an institutionalised educational system and a set of performing, pedagogical, compositional, art history, and other practices have not yet been considered in the scientific literature as a substantial component of the intangible cultural legacy, which determines the relevance of this study. The author attempts to direct scientific thought to the consideration of educational artistic practices as part of the intangible cultural legacy in the aspect of preservation in modern institutionalised educational systems. The study uses a set of methods: historical-cultural, systematic and interdisciplinary approaches, comparative analysis, generalisation and systematisation, aimed at highlighting the place of art education in the system of intangible cultural legacy. The issues of preserving the practices of intangible cultural legacy accumulated in the experience of teaching groups of the Kyiv Lysenko State Music Lyceum, Lviv Krushelnytska State Music Lyceum, Odesa School of Stolyarsky, and Kharkiv State Music Lyceum are considered During the 20th century, the teaching staff of these educational institutions created a number of personalised pedagogical schools that presented their own methods of training musical personnel in combination with higher art educational institutions. This allowed art education in Ukraine to be institutionalised into a separate specific branch, which applied the meritocratic principle in the organisation of the educational process, which gives grounds to consider these educational practices as an intangible cultural legacy of the state. The study focuses on the experience of preserving educational practices of the intangible cultural legacy of Hungary and China as examples for Ukraine. The system of training musical and, more broadly, artistic personnel has all the signs of exclusivity and is worthy of scientific justification to preserve the experience of several generations of musicians who combine performing and pedagogical practice. The inclusion of the best practices of the collectives of the Kyiv, Lviv, Odesa, and Kharkiv music lyceums in the national list of elements of the intangible cultural legacy of UNESCO will be one of the measures for their preservation and meets the goals of the convention for the protection of the intangible cultural legacy of UNESCO