Maturity of the Axiological Component Inside the Individual Environmental Outlook

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Abstract. The article discusses axiological component of the individual environmental outlook, which includes the values, principles, norms, canons, and ideals that govern the interaction between an individual and nature and form his or her focus and motivation, as well as relations within the personality structure. The research work was conducted to identify the maturity of this component among students of pedagogical university according to such issues as philosophical understanding of the problem of interaction between an individual and nature, the negative impact of society on nature, the relationship of ecology and aesthetics, moral environmental regulation, legal regulation of relations between an individual and nature, educational value of nature, nature, as a source of spiritual inspiration, and the reflexive ability to evaluate an individual's actions and those of others. It was revealed that first-year students have low level maturity of the axiological component inside their ecological outlook. The reasons depend on the previous levels in the education and environmental education in the family, lack of knowledge about moral norms and rules of behavior while interacting with nature, as well as the importance of environmental phenomena for human life. IntroductionThe concept of environmental education in Ukraine determines that the result of environmental education is the formation of values and moral qualities of an individual which encourage the willingness to take environmental actions and save natural resources preventing destructive behavior of other individuals. They are appropriate components of an individual's outlook, and an individual's behavior is a part of his or her environmental activity. It becomes apparent that the source of an outlook is the needs, motivations, interests, aspirations and desires of an individual.The issues related to the development of an individual outlook are widely mirrored in the works of scholars (V. Vandyshev, S. Goncharenko, E. Il'enkov. Y. Krasovsky, W. Tabachkovsky, D. Chernilevsky).Research results of such scientists as I. Cohn, I. Frolov, and V. Shynkaruk, etc. indicate the specific feature that allows distinguishing environmental outlook, as a specific form of social consciousness, and its other forms. This feature reflects the material reality as a whole with a certain point of view -namely, through the prism of relations between the two major components of this reality: the world of an individual (civilization, culture) and the world of nature. The authors recognize that individual ecological outlook is complexly structured. In addition, one of the elements of that structure is the individual belief and judgment.

Expanding the Scientific Worldview of Ecology Students

“…Для посилення формування екологізованого мислення та формування широкого наукового світогляду до існуючої сучасної ситуації провідну роль присвячено вивченню першоджерел написаних біологами, екологами, філософами. У процесі вивчення, літератури відбувається обговорення текстів відбувається власне сприйняття, розуміння вивчених позицій, але найголовніше відбувається залучення до екологічних справ, загальнолюдських цінностей (Бех, 2003;Dushechkina, 2014).…”