The model of “School of Ecological Culture”: development of children’s values of environmental ethics

Ecological culture of an individual is considered as the goal of education, a set of ecologically developed emotionally-sensual, intellectual, and activity spheres of personality. Approaches to modeling the process of education of ecological culture in the general education school are defined. The methodological basis is formed by axiological and culturological approaches, ideas about the co-evolution of Person and Nature, ecological ethics, ecological values, ideals of harmony of Person and Nature, replacing anthropocentrism, as well as relevant attitudes of consumer culture for competent nature management. The School of Ecological Culture is considered in the article as a development space for schoolchildren of positive ecological experience as being necessary for the development of a creative moral and ecological position in children. The education of ecological culture is a system-forming direction that integrates all the directions of educational activity. The structural-functional level of the model, approaches to the organization of the educational process are also reviewed by the paper. The main indicators of the effectiveness of the implementation of the model of education of the ecological culture of schoolchildren.