Topical aspects of forming ecological culture at the modern stage

A nowadays topical issue of the interactions between man, society and nature, reflected in the system of scientific knowledge of the new concepts and terms, with the content focus to make human development global, promoting the change of his moral values and orientations, is discussed. It is stressed that the importance of the above problem increases in the conditions, when world community is in transit to ‘green economy’, the key aspects of it being maximum rationalization of natural resources utilization and creating harmony between economy, social policy and ecology. It is assumed, that to correspond to the tendencies in the global community, the system of Russian education must have a niche to account for the potential global changes. It is noted that the topicality of forming ecological culture of specialists in the system of professional education increases after a number of federal and regional laws have been passed within the last decade. It is noted, that some Russian scientific pedagogical researches disclosed theoretical and practical aspects of forming the ecological culture in detail, including ecological education and upbringing, methods of diagnosing and forming ecological culture, problems the connections between ecology and educational environment and formation anfd development of students’ ecological outlook.