FORMATION OF ECOLOGICAL COMPETENCE AMONG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
FORMATION OF ECOLOGICAL COMPETENCE AMONG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on the description of the need to overcome the global environmental crisis, which has increased the importance of environmental criteria. They are becoming mandatory and priority in all branches of human activity. In this regard, the current circumstances require the implementation of an innovative development strategy in the state and the related training of human resources, whose activities will be aimed at improving the effectiveness of the relationship between man and nature, ensuring environmental safety on the basis of advanced domestic and foreign achievements. The basis of ecological well-being is ecological education, the main goal of which is the formation of a new ecological thinking, the upbringing of a socially active person with a high ecological culture and the ability to adapt to rapidly changing socio-ecological conditions, as well as having a sense of responsibility to descendants for their ecological behavior. The aim of the article is to reveal the existing problems of environmental knowledge among university students. The article suggests the ways of training specialists in the field of environmental protection and the use of natural resources, taking into account public needs. Environmental knowledge is a mandatory qualification requirement for all officials whose position is related to the use of natural resources and leads to an impact on the state of the environment. The article deals with the problem of ecological education and the possibility of training specialists in the field of environmental protection. The main point is the formation of environmental competencies. The need for environmental education of the entire population directs educational institutions to plan (develop) a system of environmental education. The importance of environmental education as a direction of spiritual and moral development of a student’s personality is currently increasiпg. The results of the research can serve as a basis for further study of teaching environmental knowledge among university students in higher educational institutions. The training of a teacher who is able to organize the process of educating students’ ecological culture in practice is the most important link in overcoming the ecological crisis.

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