Practices of the youth ecological culture formation: institutional conditions, problems and prospects of implementation

Abstract

Introduction. The prerequisite for the study was the contradictions between the declared need to form environmental culture of youth and the lack of a unified approach to the interpretation of the essence of this category, its structure and the process of formation, between the expansion of the range of different actors carrying out environmental education activities in the youth environment, the growth in the number of their activities and the lack of systematization in this matter, as well as the objective lack of effective institutional algorithms for the formation and development of environmental culture of youth. The purpose of the study is to characterize the institutional conditions, key problems and prospects for the implementation of practices of formation of environmental culture of youth. Materials and methods. The research methods included the analysis of regulatory and legal documents on the topic of the study and expert survey of organizers of educational, educational and awareness-raising activities of environmental orientation for youth in the Krasnodar region. The expert survey was conducted in the form of a semi-structured interview on the basis of a questionnaire developed by the authors, including a set of open questions about institutional conditions, problems and prospects for the formation of environmental culture of youth and closed formalized questions that allow us to assess the current state of practice in the formation of environmental culture of youth. The selection of experts was carried out by the «snowball» method. Results. The study revealed the declarative nature of most of the existing legislative norms in the field of environmental culture formation among youth and the lack of an effective mechanism for their implementation, taking into account local conditions and peculiarities, especially with regard to the younger generation. The majority of experts expressed a consolidated opinion on the insufficient coverage of young people with practices of environmental education and awareness and insufficient use of the potential of various actors in the formation of environmental culture in the context of the need to increase staffing, develop interdisciplinary and project competencies of practice initiators and improve the effectiveness of intersectoral cooperation Conclusion. The most effective response to the current situation can be regular monitoring of the system of formation of environmental culture of youth and its institutional design to update the normativelegal, information-discursive, personnel and methodological support, as well as the creation of regional coordination centers for effective interdepartmental and intersectoral cooperation, taking into account the regional context.