The essence and features of socio-ecological readiness of future teachers
The professional education system is facing some new challenges, one of it is the preparation of future teachers who can form the ability of the younger generation to build their life in the context of social and natural factors, their interconditionality and development. The Strategy of Ecological Safety of the Russian Federation for the Period until 2025, defines the development of the system of environmental education and enlightenment as one of the priority areas for solving problems in the field of ensuring environmental safety. One of the objectives of the state strategy, Fundamentals of state policy in the field of environmental development of the Russian Federation until 2030, identified the need to form an environmental culture, the development of environmental education and upbringing. Despite many publications on this subject, there are almost no studies on the formation of the social and environmental readiness of a future teacher in terms of higher professional education. Since this phenomenon has been little studied, the problem in this formulation is considered for the first time. The purpose of the study is the essence and content determination of the concept of social and environmental readiness of the future teacher. In the developing process of the essential characteristics of the social and environmental readiness of the future teacher, we relied on the research of I.I. Brekhman, G.K. Zaitseva, V.P. Kaznacheeva A.G. Madjugi, N.M. Mamedova, I.N. Ponomareva, Z.I. Tyumaseva, A.D. Ursul, Shilova V.S. and others. The study of the formation problem of the social and environmental readiness of the future teacher revealed the main substantive characteristics of the social and environmental readiness phenomenon of the future teacher. The obtained results contribute to the development of the theory and methodology of vocational education. The results of the study open up a new theoretical direction in the study of the problems of social and environmental education in higher pedagogical school.