Формирование экологического мышления учащихся средней общеобразовательной школы средствами инновационного образовательного кластера

Abstract

The study deals with a project on the development of students’ ecological thinking and the improve-ment of their environment-focused social activity. To achieve this goal, an education innovation clus-ter has been developed. The cluster is characterized by unified resources of secondary general, second-ary vocational, and higher educational institutions; the environmental focus of training programs and studying Ecology on an integrated and supplemen-tary basis; following the curriculum of secondary education and vocational education in the field of green building at the same time. The project pro-poses that the curriculum of secondary general and vocational education might be integrated on the basis of a secondary school. To green education, it is necessary to involve students in an in-depth study of natural sciences, introduce Ecology, and include topics related to the development of stu-dents’ ecological thinking in a number of syllabi. The project presents the methods and techniques of engaging students in environment-focused social activity. The problems are solved through the crea-tion of the education innovation cluster, which in-cludes a secondary school, a research and educa-tional center at this school, and several secondary vocational and higher educational institutions.