Meninio ir dvasinio ugdymo integralumas

Abstract

Spiritual crisis of the society is forcing scholars to question the spiritual upbringing of pupils. The school is concentrating most on expanding the knowledge and intellectual base while almost forgetting the purpose and final goal of the upbringing – the spirituality of a person. Positivistic knowledge is also visible in the sphere of artistic upbringing. Thus, as various research shows, for teenagers the sensitivity to beauty, belief values has become the least acceptable (Martišauskienė, 2004; Aramavičiūtė, 2005). It is thus urgent to look for ways to solve the problem: how to integrate pupils’ artistic education into personal spiritual upbringing and achieve artistic and spiritual upbringing unity. The purpose of the article – to reveal the conditions for achieving artistic and spiritual upbringing connectivity