Methodological foundation for the formation of environmental culture and environmental-professional competence of future specialists

The article shows the methodological foundation for the formation of ecological culture and ecological professional competence of future specialists. The possibilities of the cultural approach as a content basis, a methodological message for the development and implementation of a competence-oriented educational process, which is aimed at the formation of a future specialist in ecological culture and ecological professional competence, are considered. It has been established that the competence approach in modern professional humanitarian education allows the student to form an individual ecological-educational space, organizing his personal experience and projecting his ecological-professional competence. It is revealed that the cultural approach to education today finds its partial solution in the implementation of the ideas of the competence approach, which corresponds to the leading idea of our research that the competence approach to humanitarian education allows the student to form an individual ecological and educational (eco-cultural) space through the development of his personal and professional activity. It has been proved that the concept of "ecological culture of the individual" characterizes the conceptual goal of modeling the educational process for the formation of the ecological professional competence of the future specialist. The position of the author's concepts regarding the essence of ecological culture in psychological, ethical, sociocultural, pedagogical and philosophical aspects is highlighted. It is revealed that ecological culture is a qualitatively new culture of the individual, which fills the properties of its relations with the surrounding socio-natural environment with a specific (depending on the level of ecological culture) content. It was established that there is a methodological connection between the concepts of "ecological culture" and "ecological-professional competence" as the attitude of the whole to its part. Environmental professional competence was considered as the ability and readiness of future specialists to design and organize environmental activities based on the application of socio-ecological knowledge, the manifestation of evaluative judgments about nature and ecological activities, mastering ecological actions and skills of an ecological nature.