Ecological education of primary school students and teacher training for its implementation as a modern pedagogical problem

Abstract

The article identifies and characterizes the features of environmental education of primary school students and teacher training for its implementation as a modern pedagogical problem. An analysis of scientific papers on the peculiarities of environmental education of primary school students and teacher training, as well as ways to achieve the goal of environmental education in the case of solving a set of interrelated tasks that have educational and value components. Environmental education is one of the priority areas in the general system of education, aimed at the harmonious development of man, his civic consciousness. Therefore, it cannot be considered as a separate form of education. Although, of course, the relevance and specificity of environmental education encourage us to perceive it as one of the most important areas of the overall educational process. In the scientific and pedagogical literature, environmental education and upbringing are interpreted as a psychological and pedagogical process of human impact in order to form knowledge of the scientific foundations of nature, the necessary beliefs and practical skills, a certain orientation and active social position in environmental protection, environmental management and reproduction of natural resources. Modern theory and methods of vocational training offers a concept of philosophical and psychologicalpedagogical foundations of the process of professional environmental education of future primary school teachers, emphasizing the role of methods and technologies through which it is possible to implement the content of environmental education, implementing the highest ideals and standards of the teacher. Given the above, we can state that the actualization of the tasks of preparing future primary school teachers for environmental education of primary school children due to modern sociocultural circumstances, which allows the formation of environmentally educated personality capable of selfapplication of environmental knowledge and skills.