Дисертація присвячена проблемі методичного забезпечення взаємодії українських і угорських мистецьких традицій у музично-естетичному вихованні молодших школярів. На основі аналізу наукової літератури розкрито сутність та структуру музично-естетичного виховання молодших школярів в умовах полікультурного середовища, уточнено зміст понять «мистецькі традиції» та «взаємодія мистецьких традицій», виявлено спільні та відмінні ознаки українських і угорських мистецьких традицій, розкрито педагогічний потенціал взаємодії українських і угорських мистецьких традицій у процесі музично-естетичного виховання молодших школярів.
The thesis is devoted to the problem of musical and aesthetic upbringing of secondary school pupils: a) the notion of "music-aesthetic upbringing" within the frames of multicultural surrounding has received its theoretical background as purposeful pedagogic impact on pupils aimed at their involvement into the native and national musical culture and their conversion as an entity of musical occupation on basis of "aesthetic canons"; its structure was determined which includes motivational-cognitive, emotionally-evaluative, creative-functional and regulative-communicational components; b) the essence of the notion "artistic traditions" has been defined as elements of Artistic Heritage hand on from generation to generation, preserve the meaning of an artistic sample in the folklore of the society or social group and are transformed in professional art; the pedagogic potential of interaction of Hungarian and Ukrainian artistic traditions during musical-aesthetic upbringing of pupils was revealed and considered as binary, dynamic process of causality and relation of elements of both ethnoses’ Artistic Heritage that caused the appearance of new level of esthetic content and organization of musical upbringing; principles of musical and aesthetic upbringing in multicultural surrounding have been scientifically substantiated, which enables the realization of interaction of Ukrainian-Hungarian artistic traditions: intercultural orientation; based on personal and artistic experience of the pupils; unity of social and musical upbringing, application of artistic integration; pedagogical conditions, that enable the improvement of musical and aesthetic upbringing of the primary school pupils on the basis of artistic traditions’ interaction have been experimentally tested through: activization of national and social self-reflection in process of familiarization with the artistic traditions; proportionateness of study of Ukrainian and Hungarian artistic works in educational process; the application of different arts at the musical classes; focusing of the attention on the transformation of old artistic traditions into modern artistic material.