Retrospective analysis of the ideas of forming the ecological culture of life sciences university students

Abstract

Ecological culture as a branch of science and a complex characteristic of an individual and his behavior in society has a complex genesis, the stages of its formation are clearly related to the development of human civilization from the stage of the birth of productive forces to the present. The ecological culture of a specialist's personality, especially one whose activity is related to the transformation of the environment, is a social order of modern society, aimed at solving the rules and conditions of effective and problem-free coexistence of dialectically contradictory unity in the «biosphere – humanity» system. The article raises the question of a retrospective analysis of the ideas of the formation of ecological culture: the prerequisites for the establishment of environmental protection activities in different periods of the development of human civilization are analyzed, the main historical periods are singled out and the trends of its development are characterized; the theory of the formation of the ecological culture of the individual is analyzed, which is based on the system of scientific knowledge, which, in turn, form the basis of pedagogy and are interconnected with such sciences as philosophy, ecology, cultural studies, sociology, psychology, each of which has its own unique epistemological position. The provisions and approaches of interdisciplinary integration of scientific findings regarding the personal phenomenon of ecological culture and its main aspects, which are based on the unity of ecological knowledge, value attitude to natural objects and demonstration of environmental protection behavior, are summarized.