Mikheeva E.V. Ecological values of childhood (a program for pedagogical facilitation of children’s ecological subculture formation)

Mikheeva E.V. Ecological values of childhood (a program for pedagogical facilitation of children’s ecological subculture formation) // Preschool Education Today. 2011, Issue 2 - p. 24-32.

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2011, 2

Elena V. Mikheeva
PhD in Psychology, Associate Professor of the Federal State Educational Institution of Higher Education Orenburg State Pedagogical University, Orenburg, Russia

Abstract

The necessity to employ ecological-subcultural practices into educational process of a preschool educational establishment was stated by A. Zebzeeva. By such the author means situational, autonomous, grownup, peer, or self initiated acquisition of cultural experience of interacting with the nature within various groups, teams, and communities.

The program could be seen as a tool which would help understand life through love, compassion, friendship, goodwill, and care for people and environment. At the same time it develops negative attitude to aggression and carelessness towards environment. The article introduces a program specifically designed at forming ecological awareness in children.