Artistically-designer Creativity

Natalya Mikhailovna Sokolnikova — Doctor of Education, Professor of the Faculty of Design and Visual Arts of Moscow State Sholokhov University for the Humanities.

The number of master’s and doctor’s theses, which where defended under her direction is:

9 master’s theses

1doctoral thesis —

Nowadays -Natalya Mikhailovna -Sokolnikova supervises 7 postgraduate students and several applicants, consults 1 doctoral candidate and also takes an active part in the work of two dissertation councils in our university. Professor has the large spectrum of written works – about 200 publications, including 135 methodological and 75 scientific works. All these publications are currently used in the pedagogical training. These publications were also granted with a governmental signature stamp and moreover, they have a federal status, which allowed these works to be put for the basis of many Russian schools.

In the whole course of her publications and also statements on different conferences and international symposiums she was substantiating her conceptual approaches to the development of creative pupils’ activity in the system of aesthetic education. She demonstrated an urgency, novelty and also practical necessity of her work in this area. Natalya Mikhailovna -Sokolnikova is also realizing a productive work for the explanation of new conceptual approaches to the artistic and designer’s education in the educational Institutions of Russia. She has also proved the urgency of culture’s penetrating projectivity for the XX-th century. —