The unity of moral and aesthetic education of prospective teacher-designers

In the paper the problem of university students’ education is considered to be an urgent social and pedagogical problem. The authors think that it is important to combine moral, aesthetic, labor, physical, etc education in the educational process of a higher education institution. The importance of moral and ethical education of prospective teacher-designers is substantiated. The relationship between Good and Beauty is revealed as the value basis for moral and aesthetic education. Students’ moral qualities development, their aesthetic tastes and ideals development correlates with the development of the value sphere of their consciousness. The process of university students’ education is seen as their involvement in values. The authors prove that the unity of moral and aesthetic education of students - prospective teachers of design - is a complementary process of their involvement in moral and aesthetic values, when, regardless of a particular situation, moral values are meaningfully complemented by aesthetic ones while aesthetic values - by moral ones. The authors think that an effective means of moral and aesthetic education of university students is art as creative reflection, reproduction of reality in artistic images. The paper contains methods of moral and aesthetic education: talk, discussion, debate, ethical dialogue (classroom work); reading conference, viewing and subsequent analysis of movies, organizing amateur performances, excursions, etc. (extracurricular work).