UPDATING THE CONTENT OF ECOLOGICAL EDUCATION IN THE PROCESS OF PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF FUTURE TEACHERS OF NATURAL SCIENCES

Abstract

The article updates the need and expediency of building an educational paradigm based on the concept of co-evolution of the development of nature and a sustainable society, as a methodological basis for the introduction of ecological values, noospheric thinking into the content of professional training of future teachers. The research was conducted on the basis of the analysis of the state of implementation of competence-oriented environmental education and training in the professional training of future teachers of natural sciences in the theory and educational practice of higher education institutions of Ukraine. The functions assigned to the content of the ecologically oriented professional training of future teachers of natural sciences (methodological, educationalcognitive, interdisciplinary-integrative, methodical, practical-active, personal-developmental, self-evaluation) are defined and their essence is characterized. On the basis of the given didactic background and defined functions, an update of the educational content of the professional training of future teachers of natural sciences in the direction of its environmentalization has been introduced. Based on the analysis of the content of the disciplines of the general and professional cycles of educational content, it was established that the ecologically oriented professional training of future teachers of natural sciences contains the following content components: ecological, natural-scientific, pedagogical, cultural, socio-economic. The disciplines «Concept of sustainable development» (as an example of an integrated combination of the specified components) included in the cycle of general training and «Theory and practice of environmental education and upbringing» have been introduced into the content of ecologically oriented professional training of future teachers of natural sciences at the second (master's) level of higher education - to the professional training cycle. Detailed educational and methodological support for teaching the «Concept of Sustainable Development» course has been developed, the content of which is aimed at training students of higher pedagogical education in various subject specializations.