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Article name From Ecological Literacy to Ecological Culture: Integration of Education and Enlightenment
Authors Alekseev S.V. Doctor of Pedagogy, Professor, Alekseev_sv2004@mail.ru
Bibliographic description Alekseev S. V. From Ecological Literacy to Ecological Culture: Integration of Education and Enlightenment // Scholarly Notes of Transbaikal State University. 2024. Vol. 19, no. 1. P. 36–44. DOI: 10.21209/2658-7114-2024-19-1-36-44.
Section EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
UDK 37.022
DOI 10.21209/2658-7114-2024-19-1-36-44
Article type Original article
Annotation The idea of the article is to analyze ecological culture as a goal and predictable result of environmental education and enlightenment, to consider it as a level education (environmental literacy, environmental education, environmental competence) and to study the ways to assess it. An attempt to comprehend the concept of “environmental literacy” in the context of the concept of the formation of functional literacy of students, to determine the contribution to the environmental culture of education and enlightenment is made. The options for determining environmental literacy in domestic and foreign literature are provided. The results of the Russian- Finnish LALAPETE project “Innovations in the field of reuse and environmental education” (2020–2021) are presented to make a comparative analysis of the awareness of Russian and Finnish respondents on the environmental and sustainable development issues. The article presents the results of a study of the features of the ecological culture formation of Russian and American students, conducted by P. O. Ermolaeva within the framework of a cross-cultural project. The results of the environmental awareness among schoolchildren (four comparable comparative studies conducted by A. Pavlov in 1902 (a sample of 100 respondents, students aged 11–15 years), S. Alekseev in 1991, 2012 and 2023 are presented in the article. The article also provides a comparative analysis of a number of provisions on the state of school environmental education obtained during the study, and the results of the study by S. V. Alekseev in 2022 in the education system of St. Petersburg. The development of a pilot project for the transition from environmental literacy to environmental culture on the basis of the eco-humanitarian model “6+1” has been carried out, which includes the principles of humanitarianism and environmental friendliness, scientific conformity and cultural conformity, uncertainty and manufacturability, the attractor of which should be the vector of security.
Key words literacy, environmental literacy, environmental education, environmental competence, ecological culture, culture of sustainable development
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