Conceptual principles of education humanization of the future environmental specialists

Abstract

The article substantiates conceptual principles o f education humanization o f ecology students in the process o f their professional training, and determines its efficiency conditions, namely: formation o f a higher education teacher personality, able to carry out training o f future ecologists on a humanistic basis; ensuring the humanistic orientation o f students' learning content; adherence by teachers to pedagogically advisable humanistic principles and application o f "environmentally - directed" teaching methods; humanization o f relationship between teachers and future ecologists. There was substantiated the requirements system to a higher education teacher, among which special place is given to common civil features, moral and pedagogical qualities, individual psychological peculiarities and professional competence. The basic component o f the teacher's personality structure is his humanistic orientation, which is manifested in relation to a student as the highest value, recognition o f his right to freedom and happiness, free development and manifestation o f abilities. The authors proposed a provision on the example o f teaching psychological cycle disciplines, based on ensuring humanistic orientation o f the student learning content, aimed at the formation o f a humanistoriented personality o f a specialist-ecologist with eco-centric type o f ecological consciousness. There was carried out a characteristics o f ecologically oriented teaching methods. They are the methods o f forming ecological consciousness, thinking; education o f ecological values; methods o f forming subjective attitude to nature; methods o f practical interaction with the natural world. Particular attention is paid to methods of forming a subjective attitude to nature (ecological identification, ecological empathy, ecological reflection), methods ofpractical interaction with the world o f nature field practices), methods o f objective reality cognition at the level o f ecosystems (observation in nature, ecological paths) , audio-visual methods and methods for predicting and demonstrating the possible consequences o f destructive behavior. The authors pay attention to the application peculiarities o f active forms o f work and computer networks in the educational process, which will promote increased interest in learning, formation in students the independent work skills, will teach students to adapt to modern society requirements.