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The authors note that during the period 1980-2000, significant changes occur in the role of arts and crafts in the cultural space of the country and the principles of their use in education for development of the younger generation, upbringing its artistic culture. The analysis of the trends occurring in the decorative and the easel arts has allowed to understand that there takes place a sharp demarcation of the folk and professional arts, the decorative art becomes an integral part of the environment approach, at the artistic enterprises there comes forward the master artist, whose work becomes synonymous with the trade as such. All this leads to the fact that arts and crafts turned are turning into manufacture with samples and copies. This leads to proliferation in the period 1970-80 of the most known crafts and types of decorative art. Copying becomes the base of studying the trade or the types of applied art. In contrast to this attitude to the indiscriminate spread of traditional Russian crafts, there arises a conservative-protective theory in the art study and, as a result, a regional component of the school curricula. The regional approach allows including more actively into the curriculum the acquaintance of students with local artists and masters of decorative arts and crafts. Thus, in the school curricula and programs of additional education, the process of attracting material on local crafts and crafts is more and more active. The article presents the dynamics of studies in the field of art education, dedicated to the role of the arts and crafts of the country. The authors, based on the analysis of scientific research, highlight a number of areas that address the incorporation of arts and crafts into the educational process, which are critical to this period: 1) aesthetic and labor education; 2) creativity in all its forms; 3) preservation and development of folk and national art; 4) methodological and organizational development of training; 5) improved training for teachers on specific types of decorative and applied art.