Kryvosheya T. Aesthetical Education in Contemporary Cultural Process

Dissertation is a complex research of theory of aesthetical education as a cultural phenomenon in methodological area of shaping categories in Cultural Studies considering contemporary processes of cultural transformation. Culturological context for researching this issue is defined in this paper as follows: categorical formation is being created where the category "aesthetical education" is correlated with notions "aesthetical culture", "sensual culture"; combination of the above notions makes the cultural paradigm of aesthetical education. Methodological features of culturological research of sensual culture are also justified: we argue the one of methodological ways of researching genesis of sensual culture from the point of view of certain sensual modalities (visual culture, audial culture, olfactory culture, tactility, taste) and concepts of sensual culture (boring, interesting); we prove that aesthetization of sensuality is a cultural process where it is fixed with cultural means, cultural mediation and cultural retranslation; we find out that relatively to the model of sensual culture the paradigm of aesthetical education is formed; we discover that research of human sensuality is impossible without consideration of physical characteristics; we explain connection of genesis of many emotional states with somatic experience; we prove heuristic and methodological potential of "downstream" aesthetics; based on positions of aesthetical education intentions we research such aesthetical and artistic phenomena as "tactile architecture", "soundscape", olfactory system in design, Eat Art.