INCLUSIVE ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES RESOURCES BY MEANS OF ZOO

Abstract

The purpose of the study is the formation of environmental attitudes toward nature in an inclusive environmental education for children with disabilities by means of zoo. Special role in the process of socio-cultural adaptation of these children to the environment, the formation of ecological culture of personality, communication, comprising as essential components bio-ecological knowledge, values ​​and environmental activities by zoo game. The learning process of children with disabilities requires the creation of special educational environment at the zoo and the use of active learning in biology. At the centre of our work lay organize special remedial developmental activities in which we introduce children to virtual zoo, which contributed to the formation of their ideas about the nature and development of ecological thinking. To study the value-semantic component of ecological culture of children with disabilities used diagnostic methods (S. D. Deryabo, V. A. Yasvin). Our study took place on the basis of special (correctional) boarding school «Overcoming» the city of Samara, in grades 5-9. In the study, it was found that the intensity of the subjective attitude towards nature among students has an average and that knowledge of nature are not backed by sufficient love for her, therefore, the formation of students with disabilities ecological relationship to nature, the development of an environmental culture in the inclusive environmental education involves the active use of various means, including the protection of the zoo. Results showed that the intensity ratio of the subjective nature of its structure, and 47-71, the level of dominance for the nature display areas: emotional - 5, 26, cognitive - 6, 23, in a practical - 6, 13, the dominant type Position on nature: the beauty - 40, 90; security - 25, 18; Use - 18, 93; Study - 16, 95.