Elaboration of the social-ecological approach in German pedagogics: metatheoretical concept of children’s development

The article reviews the implications and subsequental development of the socially-ecological approach in pedagogics of Germany; on the basis of the most worked theoretical concepts features of a socially-ecological way to conceive the processes of development, socialization and training of the person are allocated; the prospects of use of ecological knowledge in a modern pedagogical theories and researches are designated.