Ecological Ethics As Vector For Updating The Content Of Environmental Education

As the main vector for updating the content of environmental education, the article substantiates its humanitarian, which will realize the powerful potential of humanitarian knowledge in the development of ecological culture of children. The importance of strengthening the axiological component in connection with the need to reorient from a utilitarian approach to nature, from nature management to a value attitude to nature in all aspects, including moral and aesthetic, is substantiated; including the new meaning and motives of habitual norms. It is important to take care of nature not only as a human life resource, but as a self-valuable phenomenon that has its own right for life. It is important to develop the value-semantic foundations of a responsible attitude to nature, which should be motivated not only by calculating and rational knowledge about a person’s dependence on the ecological state of the environment, but, most importantly, by a sense of love for nature, and a value attitude to the life of all living beings and the planet in general, feelings of compassion, mercy, empathy, harmony with nature. The humanitarian component of environmental education, which should be the leading one in childhood, taking into account its psychological characteristics, is called to in the article as environmental ethics - an educational module that integrates cultural and axiological, moral, spiritual and emotional-sensual components along with natural science ideas about the world around us in the process of development of the environmental culture of the personality.