ENVIRONMENTAL CULTURE DEVELOPMENT IN THE CONDITIONS OF EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT: PROBLEMS AND PERSPECTIVES

Abstract: The article relevance is stipulated by the necessity of finding ways to increase environmental safety level, forming planet population environmental culture, including in Russia, which strives to implement the sustainable development concept. The article objective is to analyze problems and reveal pedagogical conditions for raising the efficiency of forming environmental culture in school educational environment. The leading approach to investigating this problem was theoretical analysis. Besides, the polling data of 80 elementary school teachers were used so as to subjectively estimate the comfort degree of educational environment. As a result of theoretical analysis, the problems of developing environmental culture was found to be based upon contradictions between society demand in environmentally cultural, educated personality capable to join the process of protecting and investigating the environment, and insufficient development level of pupils’ environmental culture. Thus, it was concluded environmental culture is a part of general culture connecting informational, technological (activity), and axiological layers. The performed research of psychological and pedagogical conditions for forming environmental culture can be useful for officials in the education sector, practical teachers, and all citizens interested in environmental education issues. Keywords: ecological education, ecological worldview, ecological behavior, ecological consciousness, ecological and developing environment, school ecology, family ecology.