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The objective of this article is to determine the value content of the personality centered aesthetic education, which theoretical and methodological strategy is an axiological approach. Based on understanding the axiological approach as a value-related pedagogical instrument, the personality centered aesthetic education is considered as a process, aimed on understanding the objective values of culture as special needs, which make them subjectively significant, stable life orientations of the person, his/her value orientations. The axiological approach involves studying the aesthetic values through their correlation with other values on the level of emotional reactions and significance for the person. The aesthetic values internalization ensures the formation of aesthetic education in the process of constant aesthetic creativity. The axiological approach allows building a set of values: the «aesthetic creativity» values (making of a creative product, «imaginary worlds», the desire to find unexpected solutions for the artistic and creative tasks etc.); the «aesthetic experience» values (desire for empathy with the heroes of artworks; sensitivity to the phenomena of the world, the desire to obtain aesthetic impressions etc.); the «aesthetic attitude» values (values of goodness, truth and beauty, the desire to establish supportive relationships with other people, values of mutual understanding, empathy in the process of aesthetic creativity). The axiological approach leads to distinguishing the main stages of internalization of aesthetic values in the process of the personality centered aesthetic education: the aesthetic values presentation in the form of concepts, norms, ideals, objects, events, works of art, involving the freedom of choice of the aesthetic values, types and methods of aesthetic creative activity through the creation of special axiological situations; the aesthetic values assimilation without realizing their significance; the stage of emotional-sensual incorporation of the aesthetic values through emotional comprehension of the aesthetic object in the process of observing emotional reactions of other people and incorporation of the aesthetic values into the system of value orientations; the stage of conscious accepting of aesthetic values through correlation of the value orientations with the subjectively significant personality values and their realization in aesthetic creativity and behavior. The axiological approach involves the aesthetic values study through their correlation with other values on the level of emotional reactions and personality significance. The aesthetic values internalization ensures the formation of aesthetic education in the process of constant aesthetic creativity. The article discusses the process of aesthetic values internalization, which covers several widest layers of personality (motivational, emotional, rational, activity and creativity) and creates a system of aesthetic values standards (attractive or repulsive, good or bad, beautiful or ugly) and the personality meaningful aesthetic values.