MASTERING VALUES IN AN ECOLOGICAL SPHERE IS THE MAIN CONDITION FOR AN ECOLOGICAL THINKING FORMATION
A difficult social-economic situation in the country becomes worse because of the critical state of environment. In order to overcome this situation necessary measures are not taken. A considerable worsening of environment parameters conditioned health level, working capacity, social activity of people decrease. That is why it is necessary to search for effective directions of the existing problems solution. Many specialists in the sphere of sociology, economics, ecology, psychology, philosophy see the way out the educational system development, which provides an axiological attitude formation of people to environment as the regulator of their behavior. Research methods: scientific literature analysis, the experience use of the developed countries in rehabilitation of the ruined natural objects, pedagogical experiment, testing, mathematical treatment of research materials. Results. Environment state worsening, understanding of this situation by the progressive scientists and public figures determined the increase of research works on the problem of students’ axiological orientations, which provide an active life position formation of the future specialists in different spheres of industrial and agricultural production, defining the future of the country. In this terms, an ecological safety as the main value of our state is reflected in relations between people and environment, the character of which is mainly determined by mastering values in the sphere of ecology. The article reveals the main values in the sphere of ecology; the methodology of their mastering is demonstrated. The content of the methodology includes information about environment state at different stages of society development, information about the advanced experience of the developed countries on natural objects rehabilitation, safe technologies of industrial and agricultural products production, the system of ecological education development; the forms of educational activity; evaluation criteria of ecological values mastering degree. Conclusion. The results of the pedagogical experiment showed, that mastering ecological values by the students of the pedagogical University, the future teachers, helps them to realize deeply the importance of ecology as an integrating scientific discipline, which provides ecological world view and ecological thinking formation, which determine the necessity understanding to change a consumer’s attitude to environment to a rational one, a nature saving, nature protective attitude.