PRINCIPLES OF ETHNO-ECOLOGICAL EDUCATION OF BELARUSIANS
The article emphasizes the priority of environmental education in the formation of a modern personality. The expediency of referring to the national educational experience of previous generations is substantiated, among which the principles of traditional pedagogy occupy an important place, reflecting the syncretism of the way of life of the Belarusian people with the environment, which gave rise to its ethnonational specifics and, thanks to these principles, preserved it. The work reveals and highlights the system of principles of ethnoecological education, built on the laws of the natural tradition of the national pedagogical culture of Belarusians, which determined the originality of its content-targeted and procedural-methodological foundations and the effectiveness of the results. The specific essential characteristics, rules and requirements of the key, system-forming principles of ethnoecological education, which regulated the nature and structure of this process, are defined and characterized. Their interrelation and interdependence, as well as effectiveness in achieving the set goals, are substantiated. The obtained research results substantiate and confirm the need to revive and rethink the educational ethnopedagogical heritage, which carries an invaluable experience of human communication with the outside world, the idea of popular respect for it, the ideal of human behavior in nature, and its inclusion in the modern theory and practice of environmental education as determinants of ecological and educational ideas.