Scientific School of L. A. Rapatskaya. The Culturological Direction in Pedagogics of Art

Ludmila Aleksandrovna Rapatskaya is Doctor of Education, Ph. D. in -Art History, Professor, the Head of Culturology and Musical Training Methodology Department, the Dean of the Culture and Musical Art Faculty -of Sholokhov Moscow State University for the Humanities. The number of defended master’s and doctoral theses:

master’s theses – 35,

doctoral theses – 5.

L.A.Rapatskaya’s great contribution to the development of Russian Pedagogics has widened the means of musical pedagogical research and created a new culturalogical school in the Art Pedagogics. She has published a great number of various works both in our country and abroad. — —

L.A.Rapatskaya was the first in Russia to write about the spiritual Orthodox sources of the Russian art. The interaction of the “spiritual” and “artistic” was the heart and soul of her research.

Another important theme of L.A.Rapatskaya’s research is the Russian music in the context of the artistic culture. She was the author of the first Russian course book on Musical Pedagogics, published in 2001. —

The problems of the world artistic culture as a school and university subject -are a very important part of L.A.Rapatskaya’s scientific biography. Her research resulted in the new concept of “the World Artistic Culture” course. The two course books of “The World Artistic Culture” (for the Xth and XIth forms) became the most popular in Russian schools. —

L.A.Rapatskaya’s great contribution to the development of the Russian culturalogical education has resulted in the creation of a new school subject “Russian Artistic Culture”. Its target is to form the idea of the great national heritage of Russia among the students. All L.A.Rapatskaya’s course books are labeled with the Russian Ministry of Education and Science stamp, they are used on the federal level and implemented in the practice of pedagogical universities and universities for the humanities, conservatoires, musical colleges and schools. —

Nowadays L.A.Rapatskaya is training a number of post-graduate students, advising two doctoral candidates and is taking part in the work of four dissertation councils. She continues her work in the sphere of the University Pedagogics, having enriched it with the research in the area of music therapy, musical computer technologies and innovative methodics, which reflect the development of the new directions of the world culture in the XXIst century. —