ON THE PROBLEM OF FORMING SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL COMPETENCE IN CHILDREN OF PRESCHOOL AGE

Abstract

The article considers the issue of formation of socio-ecological competence of the younger generation, which is of key importance in the process of establishing environmental education for sustainable development. The analysis of the concept of “socio-environmental competence” as a personality phenomenon in the research of scientists is given. Attention is focused on the special role of the preschool level of education, laying the foundations of the socio-ecological development of the individual. It is shown how the elements of social ecology can be included in the process of environmental education of children. In understanding the essence of the socio-ecological competence of a person, the author brings an ecological and economic component, justifying it with the possibility of introducing children to affordable resource-saving activities. Some of the most important pedagogical conditions, as well as ways of forming the socio-ecological competence of preschoolers, are clarified from the standpoint of the ecological and economic approach.