Natural science education in the formation of elements of ecological legal competence of higher school students

The article explains the possibility of natural science education in the formation of such key components of ecological legal competence as environment-centered worldview, ecological legal literacy, ecological legal thinking, ecological values, social and personal qualities of environmentally cultural personality. The system of methodical means of their development is proposed and implemented in the pedagogical practice. The author presents quantitative results of the diagnostic researches, reveals problems, contradictions and factors of the educational process.