Nurgabylova A.Sh.
PECULIARITIES OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION OF YOUTH IN THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN ^{[№ 1 ' 2018]}
In the modern era of mankind’s existence, a productive solution to the vital environmental issues and problems faced by the world community is largely correlated with the success of environmental education and the upbringing of the future generation. In this regard, the pedagogical and social aspects of environmental education and the education of young people is the main issue in the period of modernization of education in the Republic of Kazakhstan. In the conditions of increasing environmental degradation of the natural environment, pedagogical aspects of improving environmental education, raising the level of ecological literacy of the younger generation in the co-evolutionary plane of humanitarian values, ideas, ideals and paradigms should be constantly kept in the center of attention — along with no less significant other ones. In this regard, the problem of environmental education of young people should be regarded as an independent and self-valuable area of the educational development of the adult person’s personality. The characteristic features of this are: a new understanding of the goals, objectives and indicators of the effectiveness of education, the orientation of educational interaction in addressing global and regional environmental issues and tasks in a the humanization of the multifaceted life of the Kazakh society. The distinctive features of environmental education for the youth of the Republic of Kazakhstan should also include: the orientation of the content, forms and methods of training environmental specialists in higher education institutions on urgent environmental problems, where special attention is paid to the implementation of the humanitarian potential of environmental design activities; intensification of environmental education and practical activities of public non-governmental organizations, including using the capabilities of the media and the resource of IT technologies; realization of the ecological potential of personal development of the subjects of the natural and humanitarian cycles in regional general education systems.