DEVELOPMENT OF STUDENTS’ ECOLOGICAL CULTURE IN THE VOCATIONAL TRAINING SYSTEM
Ecological education is one of the prior directions of modern pedagogics. The objective of the ecological education is the development of the individual’s ecological culture. Individual’s ecological culture is viewed as a system-forming factor contributing to the formation of a person’s genuine culture and civility. Development of the ecological culture can’t be effected with the help of various recurrent actions and campaigns, but requires clear scientific and methodological basis and appropriate organizational system. In the article the methodological bases of students’ ecological culture development are revealed. Positions of the eсocentrism philosophy in development of a new eсocentric outlook in the rising generation are substantiated. Directions of the ecological preparation of students, acting as a basis of individual’s ecological culture development, have been established. Content of the ecological preparation of students is determined. Material presented in the article can be used in training of specialists of different types.