Ecological culture issues in the context of environmental education

Abstract

The task of students’ ecological culture formation and finding effective ways to develop persons’ liable attitude to the ecological issues and eco-friendly processes is becoming more urgent in modern conditions. The article is aimed at ecopsychological study of person’s ecological culture components in the process of professional becoming. The research tasks are: to make a theoretical analysis of ecological culture issues in the context of environmental education; to conduct ecopsychological study of ecological culture components; to develop a methodological recommendations dealing with given problems. To evaluate the main components of ecological culture, the methodology for studying environmental consciousness was used, proposed by scientists V.I. Panov, M.O. Mdivani, E.V. Lidskaya and Sh.R. Khisambeev (subtests “Assessment of environmental threats”, “Environmental responsibility” and “Unity with nature” and “Situations”). The value-normative method of G.E. Zalessky as a way of involving subjects in life situations by systematically changing the conditions of the same task was applied. The study provides recommendations for developing ecological culture. In conclusion, methods of environmental education and eco-psychological interaction are described.