Artistic practices as an innovative format of higher pedagogical education

The article analyzes the essence of pedagogical innovations, considers the reasons for their appearance, highlights the sociocultural nature of pedagogical activity, traces its connection with the general human content of experience in the form of aesthetic values, which serves as the basis of aesthetic education. The specifics and functions of aesthetic education are characterized. In the light of innovation and modernization of higher pedagogical education, the objective requirement for its renewal by means of using artistic practices in the university educational process as a special spiritual activity of subjects of creative self-realization activity is substantiated. The article describes the experience of applying these artistic practices.