Environmental education in Higher School

Industrial University of Tyumen, 38, Volodarskogo str., Tyumen, 625000, Russia

^* Corresponding author: o_rodina2605@mail.ru

Abstract

The importance of environmental education of the younger generation is recognized at the national and international levels. It is noted that the integration of environmental education into the system of general, professional and supplementary education as a steady interdisciplinary educational process helps continuous development of environmental literacy, environmental awareness, environmental thinking, environmental behavior, environmental culture and, in general, an environmentally oriented personality. In this regard, the aim of our research was to green engineering education in Higher School. Research methods: a theoretical analysis of scientific publications and a summary of advanced experience on ecological education, pedagogical observation and conversation, content analysis of studentsꞌ written assignments and project works. As a result, the paper generalizes theoretical knowledge about environmental education and substantiates that environmental education in Higher School is possible through enriching curricula with environmental topics and applying IT and interactive technologies that involve university engineering students in environmentally oriented activities. It concludes that IT and ecology oriented interactive technologies contribute to an increase in social and ecological knowledge, development of skills for interpreting information in the field of ecology and increasing experience in dealing with various environmental problems of local, regional, national or international significance. The results presented in research supplement the theory and practice of environmental education in Higher School and can be applied to the greening of curricula of various university disciplines, which is relevant in the context of the greening of higher education.