Ecological culture formation for future teachers on the basic of cultural and environmental educational practices

The article reveals the problem of ecological culture formation for future teachers, the relevance of which is due to the need of strengthening the technological and cultural-value sovereignty of the country, to ensure its environmentally safe socio-economic development. It is determined that cultural and ecological educational practices have a significant potential in the ecological culture formation, ensuring a future teacher upbringing as a subject of culture and environmentally oriented life activity. At the same time, their potential in pedagogical theory and practice is revealed in fragments, a systematic understanding, development and theoretical justification of their conceptual and methodological foundations are still required. The purpose of the research is to develop and scientifically substantiate the essence, specifics, types and structural-content model of cultural and environmental educational practices aimed at the ecological culture formation for future teachers. To achieve the research goal, the methods of theoretical analysis, scientific data generalization, design, construction were used. Within the framework of the study, a holistic understanding of the theoretical and methodological foundations of the development in cultural and environmental educational practices as an effective form of the ecological culture forming for future teachers based on the ideas of ecohumanism, sustainable development, integrality, holism, eventfulness and subjectivity was carried out. The essence and specifics of the development of cultural and ecological educational practices are defined and justified; their types are considered and highlighted taking into account the sequence the ecological culture formation. The structural and content model of cultural and ecological educational practices in the ecological culture formation for future teacher, presented at the methodological levels is characterized. The specific methodology of the process of designing and conducting various types of cultural and environmental educational practices corresponding to the stages of the ecological culture formation for future teachers is revealed. The materials presented in the article form the basis for further research and can be used in the design of cultural and environmental educational practices and the development for other methodological materials.