PEDAGOGICAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR DEVELOPING STUDENTS’ AESTHETIC TASTE AND ARTISTIC THINKING THROUGH CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES
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Saidqulova Gavhar Odiljon qizi ()Files
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This article examines the pedagogical opportunities for developing students’ aesthetic taste and artistic thinking through the purposeful application of creative technologies in the educational process. Aesthetic taste is interpreted not only as the ability to perceive beauty, harmony, proportion, expressiveness, and artistic value, but also as an important component of personal culture, emotional intelligence, creative self-expression, and spiritual development. Artistic thinking is considered as a complex cognitive and imaginative process that enables students to interpret artistic images, understand symbolic meanings, create original ideas, and evaluate cultural phenomena from an aesthetic point of view. The article emphasizes that creative technologies, including project-based learning, visual modeling, digital art tools, interactive tasks, performance activities, design thinking, and problem-based creative assignments, provide favorable conditions for activating students’ imagination, observation, emotional responsiveness, and independent artistic judgment. In the context of pedagogical education, the development of aesthetic taste and artistic thinking requires an integrated approach that combines theoretical knowledge, practical creativity, cultural analysis, reflection, and collaborative activity. The study highlights that creative technologies increase students’ motivation, expand their artistic worldview, strengthen their ability to perceive national and universal cultural values, and form a conscious attitude toward beauty in art, nature, human relations, and social life.
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