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Article name Education for Sustainable Development: Moral and Environmental Choice
Authors Sabrekova M.S. Senior Lecturer, sabrekovam@bk.ru
Bibliographic description Sabrekova M. S. Education for Sustainable Development: Moral and Environmental Choice // Scholarly Notes of the Transbaikal State University. 2023. Vol. 18, no. 1. P. 41–50. DOI: 10.21209/2658-7114-2023-18- 1-41-50.
Section EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
UDK 37.033
DOI 10.21209/2658-7114-2023-18-1-41-50
Article type Original article
Annotation The relevance of the article is due to the need to consider the issue of an environmentally-oriented moral position formation in students in assessing human behavior in the environment. The article points out the objective obstacles in the formation of the indicated skills in students in connection with the anthropo- and ecocentric attitudes of ecological consciousness that are adjacent in the content of modern education and mutually exclusive to each other, unreflected textbook authors and teachers. This has determined the purpose of the article, which is to update the problem of the formation of a conscious moral and ecological position among students in assessing human behavior in the environment and identifying the features of its formation by means of archetypally significant cultural concepts. The article puts forward a hypothesis and substantiates the need to develop in the younger generation the ability to give an environmentally oriented moral assessment of human behavior in terms of its impact on the environmental quality of the common environment for all, a conscious moral and environmental choice in situations containing an anthropo- or ecocentric context, on basis of national values, based on ethno-cultural archetypal cultural concepts. The main research methods are theoretical methods aimed at creating theoretical generalizations that allow revealing the essence of an environmentally-oriented moral choice and assessment, as well as the leading provisions of cultural and lin guoculturological approaches. The ability to make a moral and ecological choice and its justification not only from the point of view of legal norms, but also from the position of the ecological imperative is considered as one of the central ones in education for sustainable development. It is assumed that taking into account the findings obtained as a result of the study will allow teachers to reconsider the issue of the content of educational materials from the point of view of the cultural patterns of behavior in the environment contained in them, based on the tasks of modern education in the formation of an ecological culture of youth.
Key words education for sustainable development, environmental education, moral and environmental choice, environmental imperative, eco- and anthropocentrism
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