FORMATION OF ECOLOGICAL CULTURE OF FUTURE SPECIALISTS IN THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTION

Abstract

The article is devoted to the characteristics of the peculiarities of the formation of ecological culture of future professionals in the educational process of higher education. To achieve this goal, general scientific methods were used: analysis, synthesis, comparison, concretization, generalization, and content analysis. The problem of the formation of ecological culture of future specialists as a constructive response of university education to the challenges of the modern era is actualized. Based on the analysis of theoretical works of domestic scientists, the main approaches to defining the concept of “ecological culture” and “formation of ecological culture” are characterized; concluded that there is a lack of interdisciplinary research on the peculiarities of the formation of the environmental culture of future professionals. The need for active formation and intensive development of the ecological culture of future specialists during their studies in higher education institutions is emphasized. The positive practice includes the pervasiveness of the formation of environmental culture both within the compulsory and elective disciplines and extracurricular activities of higher education institutions. Emphasis is placed on the possibilities of elective disciplines for the development and formation of values in the formation of environmental culture in applicants for higher education and research and teaching staff of higher education institutions. The need to introduce the educational component “Human Ecology” in the training of higher education in various fields of knowledge and specialties is substantiated. A list of themes of cross-cutting environmental interdisciplinary projects for applicants of the first (bachelor’s) and second (master’s) levels of higher education has been developed and proposed. The expediency of holding binary lectures for the development of the ecological culture of higher education seekers is substantiated. Possibilities of non-formal education for the development of the ecological culture of future specialists are analyzed.
 Keywords: ecological culture; human ecology; educational process; environmental interdisciplinary project; applicants for higher education; vocational training; binary lecture; culture.