FORMATION OF AESTHETIC NEEDS OF ADOLESCENTS IN THE PROCESS OF SOCIO-CULTURAL ACTIVITY
The article raises the problem of the formation of aesthetic need and its importance in the process of training and education of the younger generation. The decisive role of socio-cultural activities' inclusion to the system of aesthetic education for the creation of conditions for the formation and realization of the aesthetic needs of adolescents in the transformation of reality according to the laws of beauty and harmony is noted. This article considers a number of different researchers' approaches in determining the nature of aesthetic need, describes the structure, object, sphere, levels and criteria of the aesthetic needs' formation. The importance of adolescence for the theory and practice of aesthetic needs' formation in the process of the organized social and cultural activity is emphasized. Pedagogical potential's options in the sphere of entertainment are described. A number of requirements for the effectiveness of the formation process of the aesthetic needs of adolescents is cited.