Culturation of personality is a key trend of higher cultural and artistic education

The purpose of the study is to reveal the essence of culturation, inculturation and acculturation as key trends in the formation of the personality culture of modern youth in the system of grade cultural and artistic education of Ukraine. The methodological toolkit for researching the essence of all manifestations of culturation is culturological, communicative, comparative, sociological approaches, the complex application of which made it possible to reveal the essence of the culturation phenomenon in all its connections and interdependencies. The qualitative characteristics that modern students of higher cultural and artistic education associate with the concept of "cultured person" have been clarified on the basis of the conducted sociological research. The essence of culture as a key trend in improving the quality of higher cultural and artistic education is considered. An own three-level model of culturation in modern higher education is presented. Emphasis is placed on the systemic character of culturation, which contributes to the individual's personal, social and professional awareness of the peculiarities of his/her own and other cultures. Three types of culture are distinguished: general, basic and professional. The specificity of their implementation at each level of higher cultural and artistic education is justified. A close connection between culturation and the level of communicative culture of an individual has been proven. The main directions of the systematic organization of the processes of culturation, inculturation, acculturation and socialization for the formation of the culture of modern youth in the educational, scientific, artistic and educational activities of modern higher education institutions are outlined and characterized. The scientific relevance lies in the methodological provision of further studies of the influence of culturation on personality, the scientific justification of the need to introduce a three-level model of culturation in modern higher education, the proof of the direct dependence of the effectiveness of the culturation process on the level of the communicative culture of the individual. The practical significance lies in the possibility of applying the proposed model of acculturation in the system of higher cultural and artistic education of Ukraine.