Vyacheslav Alexeevich SITAROV
Ph.D., Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor, Head of Department of Pedagogy and psychology of higher education, Moscow University for the Humanities 5 Yunosti street, Moscow, Russia 111395
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Larissa UREKESHOVA
Ph.D., the highest category teacher of geography, High school number 38, Aktobe, Kazakhstan
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Abstract
Relevance of the research: The research is relevant due to the total aloofness of the global environmental policy and the efforts of some states to resolve environmental problems from individuals. This actualizes the task of ecological consciousness and self-awareness development as the foundation of environmental activity of students. Objective: The aim of the study is to theoretically justify and carry out the pilot and field testing of pedagogical conditions for early teenagers’ ecological awareness development on geography lessons in secondary schools in the Republic of Kazakhstan. Methods: The main methods of the investigation were complex theoretical analysis, categorical synthesis and simulation, allowing to consider the problem of students’ ecological consciousness development during special courses. Results: The article presents the pedagogical conditions of early teenagers’ ecological awareness development at geography lessons in secondary schools in the Republic of Kazakhstan, and also discloses a pedagogical potential of ecologization of the school course “Geography” content and educational activities carried out in its framework. Practical implications: The article reflects experience of practical solutions to the problem of early teenagers’ ecological awareness development at Geography lessons in the 6th grade of the secondary school in the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Keywords: environmental awareness, early teenagers’ awareness, Science teaching