Pedagogical university students’ environmental knowledge improvement method

Currently, the world is at a decisive point at which the destruction of the environment and modern civilization, or finding ways to prevent the environmental crisis, catastrophes that threaten mass destruction. It is necessary to change this situation, if humanity really wants to save the environment and livelihoods. Scientists have concluded that the environmental crisis is a reflection of the crisis of society, crisis of modern culture, which is focused on increasing the amount of human needs without taking into account the capabilities of the atmosphere, hydrosphere and lithosphere. This paper deals with the methodology of ecological knowledge improvement among students of pedagogical university in the framework of the integrative course «Fundamentals of Ecology». The authors pay special attention to the development of the program, which is aimed at ecological knowledge improvement in wildlife management and environmental protection among students of pedagogical universities. The structure of this program allows you to logically organize the material and review it comprehensively. All the blocks (components) of the program are linked. The program is based on the following principles: universality, continuity, consistency, integration, flexibility and variability, conformity to culture and ecohumanism.