Environmental Education Practices in Russia: Experience in the Context of History

Abstract

The article presents a retrospective analysis aimed at identifying historical traditions, within which the methodology of domestic environmental education was formed. The relevance of the problem raised is connected with the need to study the historical experience of previous generations, the established traditions of nature conservation and protection, which made it possible to form the basic principles and activity practices of ecological culture and its basic component - ecological education. The presented analysis made it possible to identify the main lines of development of environmental education, which are directly related to key practices in the field of state regulation of environmental activities, ethical and environmental scientific thought and social environmental movements in their unity. At present, the experience and traditions of environmental education are becoming in demand, as they provide a real opportunity to solve modern environmental problems. Using the example of studying the processes of institutionalization of environmental education, the authors substantiate the thesis that a systematic approach in the unity of the triad “law-science-society” is the center of crystallization of a new image of environmental culture in the context of environmental education, aimed at the formation of public practices of respect for the environment.