Екологічна освіта: сучасні дефініції

Abstract

The article outlines the ways of a new look at modern environmental education, which is a necessary and significant step to improve the educational system of Ukraine, to develop a strategy for its development. The essence of the concepts of «environmental education», «environmental culture», «environmental education», «developmental environment», «education of value attitude to nature», «formal education», «non-formal education» from the positions of different authors is analyzed. It is emphasized that environmental education is characterized by a set of the following components: environmental thinking, environmental outlook, environmental ethics and environmental culture; it is a holistic cultural phenomenon that includes the processes of learning, personal development, which should be aimed at the formation of environmental education and environmental culture; it is a psychological and pedagogical process of influence on a person, the purpose of which is the theoretical formation of environmental consciousness, which means an interconnected process of learning, education and human development during the life of a person. It is noted that environmental education is the core of modern education and serves as a key to the restructuring of its modern systems and society as a whole. The concepts and provisions on which the modern development of environmental education is based are highlighted. It is concluded that environmental education is a psychological and pedagogical process of influence on a person, the purpose of which is theoretical education of environmental consciousness. The modern system of environmental education in Ukraine has a continuous, complex, interdisciplinary and integrated nature, with differentiation depending on professional orientation and consists of two subsystems of non-formal and formal environmental education.