Environmental regional approach to general education for sustainable development

the article focuses on the ideas of education for sustainable development and substantiates the necessity of environmental regional studies at school as the way to implement the national regional component of education for sustainable development. The author has analyzed the historical background and present trends indicated in pedagogical investigations of school environmental education and acknowledges the lack of researchers’ interest to the problems of the national and regional studies aspects of education for sustainable development. The essence of the concepts «school environmental regional studies» and «environmental regional approach» and of some other related concepts is refined in the article. The author proposes a project method as the basic technology to implement environmental regional approach in education for sustainable development, considers some theoretically based and tested characteristics of environmental regional projects realized in general school.