FORMATION OF ECOLOGICAL MENTALITY OF A MODERN STUDENT IN THE CONTEXT OF EFFECTIVE ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT

Issue № 9, 2024, article № 13, pages 119-125

Section: Land use and land relations

Language: Russian

Original language title: ФОРМИРОВАНИЕ ЭКОЛОГИЧЕСКОГО МЕНТАЛИТЕТА СОВРЕМЕННОГО СТУДЕНТА В КОНТЕКСТЕ ЭФФЕКТИВНОГО УПРАВЛЕНИЯ ЭКОСИСТЕМАМИ

Keywords: NATURAL CONDITIONS, IMMERSIVE LEARNING, CODE OF CONDUCT, CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR, ENVIRONMENTAL MENTALITY, ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION, ENVIRONMENTAL REALITY, ECOSYSTEM, EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT

Abstract: The purpose of the study is to analyse the process of formation of environmental mentality of students in the system of higher education. The relevance of the problem lies in the urgent need to form environmental psychology and environmental consciousness of young people, the reflection of which is the mentality, in general, and environmental mentality, in particular. Based on the comparison of different definitions in the interpretation of the categories "mentality" and "ecological mentality" existing in modern science, the article reveals theoretical and methodological aspects related to the need to develop a universal (generally accepted) understanding of these categories and their normative and legal codification. The most promising directions of further scientific research in the field of environmental mentality, in particular, related to the solution of the problem of reformatting the issues of consumption in the direction of its rational limitation, conditioned by the specific state of the modern environment, are noted. The authors have formulated and proposed recommendations in the field of more effective formation of environmental mentality of modern students, including in the field of modernisation of the modern normative-legislative base of the system of environmental education in Russian higher education, transition from the "environmental concept" to the concept of "reproduction of nature", expansion of the practice of using immersive learning (education), which involves immersion of students in the studied environmental content (situation), their active assimilation and learning of the environmental content (situation).

Authors: Stozhko Dmitry Konstantinovich, Stozhko Natalia Yurievna