Desmoecological approach to ecological culture formation during professional training of pedagogical university students

Modern humanity lives in the era of the third millennium, in a period of a huge number of global environmental problems. The majority of environmental scientists attribute the low level of ecological culture of the individual and society as a whole to the main cause of the global environmental crisis. Currently, environmental security has become a dominant element of the national security doctrine. The term «ecological culture» itself considers an individual to be a subject of public relations and relations, introduces it into various types of activity interaction between society and nature, due to certain reasons that are associated with technology, exchange and consumption, with the attitude to property, as well as with certain norms, rules, laws, services, codes, etc. Analyzing the works of scientists and the experience of interaction between the environment and society, ecological culture includes a great potential, is the guiding force of the scientific and technological revolution. It is the teacher who plays a central function in the development of the ecological culture of youth. During the training sessions and during extracurricular hours, teachers should form a complex of scientific knowledge, worldviews, and ideas among students that the global environmental crisis, which may soon turn into an environmental catastrophe, poses a huge danger to all mankind. These phenomena can be prevented only with the help of targeted environmental protection activities. Environmental protection activities include a set of environmental knowledge, skills and abilities that students can master in the process of special education and training in an educational institution (school, vocational school, university). It is necessary to have a reliable level of elementary ecological concepts from an early age, and this suggests that the teacher must be sufficiently competent in this matter. He or she must have the skills to apply theoretical knowledge in practice and develop this skill among students. But as practice shows, in most cases, teachers themselves are not yet ready to implement this function. This is manifested in the fact that they do not have enough skills to adequately assess the state of the modern natural environment, to carry out environmental protection activities. This paper substantiates the effectiveness of the desmoecological approach aimed at ecological culture formation among pedagogical university students. The authors defined the content of the conceptual and terminological composition of the pedagogical categories «ecological culture» and «desmoecological approach», developed a model of the integrative course «Ecological culture of the future teacher».