ON THE CULTURAL ORIENTATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
The article considers the ongoing evolution of the object of studying general ecological education, namely, beginning with the study of connections and relations in natural communities mediated by both natural and anthropogenic processes, and ending with connections and relations in the system "man - society-nature", taking into account the cultural Human experience in solving past ecological problems for future use in the interests of sustainable development. The problem of the connection between general ecological education and ecological culture is considered methodologically in the paper. A lot of psychological and pedagogical studies (Dzyatkovskaya E. N, Mamedov N. M., Moiseyev N. N., Tagirov E. R., and others) are devoted to the mentioned problem. The ecological education is understood as a process and means of forming an individual ecological culture, and ecological culture as a result of ecological education. Culture as a source, means, space for the development of ecological education, is the aspect of interrelation between education and culture. The results of the research show that the culturological aspect of environmental education (taking into account the positions of general education) implies the obligatory conjunction with the experience of their “cultivation” in the process of assimilating the acquired knowledge by the students (from the teacher or independently). Conjugation occurs through repetition at the level of actions following the pattern of the model, as creative project activity and an emotional and evaluative response to the work done, its importance for further personality growth. The analysis of the interrelationships between education and culture helps teachers to understand the process of shaping the culture of managing the student's personal development, promotes a deeper understanding of the overall cultural function of environmental education, and the transition from its declaration to the development of technological methods of implementation.