THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES ON THE QUALITY OF PROFESSIONAL ECOLOGICAL EDUCATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Abstract

Today, the system of higher environmental education in Ukraine is
at a complex and responsible stage of improvement, adhering to the concept
of balanced development, which corresponds to a comprehensive balanced
combination of natural, man — made, environmental, legal and socio-cultural
approaches.
One of the main tasks of higher environmental education is the formation
of students’ understanding of their own future in professional activities,
the ability to analyze environmental problems and their solutions based
on the ecological model of harmony with nature, which is defined as an
environmental paradigm based on the teachings of V. I. Vernadsky, who
advocated a mechanism to ensure the harmony of humanity and nature.
Created on thebasis of democratic and ekologo-humanism orientiriv the system
of trade ecological education is called to provide preparation creatively of active
personality, able to build the country as society which develops on principles
of socioprirodnoy harmony.
The change in the national educational paradigm is due to the needs of society
and personality with the transformation of beliefs, the establishment of new
values, the widespread introduction of new pedagogical technologies, shifts the
emphasis of education from the principle of adaptability to the principle of
competence.
In world practice, one of the most promising areas for improving the quality
of vocational environmental education is the competence approach, which is
based on the idea of key competencies proposed by experts of the Council of
Europe in the early 1990 s.