Abstract
Socio–economic processes have accelerated in the information society, technological cycles are not 20–30 years, as before, but 3–5, which radically changes the tasks of professional training of personnel of all levels and specialties. The problem of environmental education has now gone beyond national boundaries and acquired international importance. Domestic pedagogy should more actively introduce scientific developments and achievements into educational practice, in particular, through new special courses, technologies for the formation of ecological thinking, consciousness, and culture of university students, using modern psychological and pedagogical approaches. The intellectual potential of a country determines its place and role in the international arena. Today, the cost of this product in the economic exchange of developed countries is close to the value of the mass of commodities, therefore, domestic education should become a priority, widespread field of activity in the state, and environmental education – the most prestigious, most powerful basis for active and vital research in various areas: social , technical, medical, pedagogical, economic. Practical and theoretical contributions to the world education and science system can raise the level of national environmental and educational achievements to a prominent place in the world.
Highlights
The peculiarity of environmental education is to teach all segments of the population, various social groups to understand the causes of global environmental changes in the environment and ways to overcome them
Environmental education (EE) has become an integral part of the curriculum of schools of all levels, has become a complex of knowledge about the global conditions of human existence, has contributed to the protection, and to the improvement of the environment
The success of an individual in life is directly associated with a solid education, has no beginning or end, because the main goal of pedagogy is to form in children and students the ability to live in the modern world, to use knowledge and skills in various disciplines
Summary
EO is viewed as a system of knowledge about the global conditions for the existence of living things, a complex of educational and pedagogical activities in order to form environmental consciousness, and on its basis, motivation for responsible activities. EE has become an integral part of the curriculum of schools of all levels, has become a complex of knowledge about the global conditions of human existence, has contributed to the protection, and to the improvement of the environment. Mayor believed that the most important factor in solving environmental problems is global education with environmental issues at the center of all curricula: “Our survival, environmental protection can only become abstract concepts if we do not bring up in every child a simple and confident thought: people are a part of nature, we should all love our trees and rivers, fields and forests, as we love life itself” [7]
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