Abstract:
The article actualizes the issue of research preparation of higher education applicants of art specialties, as well as pedagogical specialties that envisage teaching art.The research component of future specialists’ preparation is considered in the context of its content and role in the holistic academic culture of applicants, which covers two key segments: research and information-communication, technological. It is shown how they are connected with the artistic-pedagogical content of the study profile. Actual content aspects of teaching students art are presented, which become the subject of research by scientists and have prospects for the cognitive-search activities of higher art and artpedagogical education applicants. Special attention is paid to future musical art teachers, future choreography teachers, as well as primary school teachers who study the programs containing educational components for teaching art disciplines.The prolongation and latency of educational and research preparation of future specialists is shown through the implementation of individual educationalresearch tasks, through artistic-analytical activity in working on works of art and through creative selfexpression in performance and methodological activities, which is accompanied by the search and discovery of new knowledge for the education applicant. Pedagogical conditions are proposed that have been tested in the educational process and have shown an increase in students’ motivation for educational and research activities: purposeful mastery of the interrelationships of science and art as a sphere of creative self-realization; involvement and combination of the socio-cultural experience of the education applicants with the educational process at the level of course projects and individual educational-research tasks.