ЕКОЛОГІЧНА КОМПЕТЕНТНІСТЬ ЯК ПРОДУКТ ЕКОЛОГІЧНОЇ ОСВІТИ ТА ЕКОЛОГІЧНОГО ВИХОВАННЯ

Abstract

The article gives the analysis of the actual problems of environmental education, suggests the mechanisms for the forming of ethical imperatives of logical culture of personality. The author emphasizes that environmental education is one of the important component of environmental activity where takes place the process of ecological consciousness, thorough ecological and worldview convictions at every our contemporary. The purpose of the article is to open the mechanism of forming and functioning of ethical imperatives in ecological structure of personality. The achieving of this purpose is possible on condition if environmental education will be included in the complex of educational process and oriented on all categories of population. It has been noted that mastering ecological knowledge by the subject of ecological activity depends on definite system of value orientations: own attitude to questions which must be studied, the readiness to devote themselves to the protection of environment and desire to take part in nature protection events. There have been considered the role of education in becoming of ecological culture. In this case we can speak about moral and ecological education that is not only the means of mastering the external benchmarks and regulators but transformation them in elements of personal consciousness, in interior regulators. It is emphasised that a certain system of values should be the basis of environmental education. The value-based approach is one of the leading ones in environmental education. Attention is also drawn to the fact that the system of values as a phenomenon of social practice and culture is not fundamental in the process of education. It is itself, as an organic part of social activity, a social value. Environmental work as social activity is capable of improving and qualitatively changing environmental programmes, reprogramming all types of human activity and is aimed at spiritual and practical development of the environment. There have been done the conclusion that such education contributes to production of value oriented view on nature. So, the ecological activity is a universal, adaptive and optimization mechanism of human society thanks to which is possible the coevolutional process oriented to achievements of harmonic interaction in the system «society – nature». Keyword: ecological culture, ecological education, coevolutional, environmental education, ethical imperative.