Ecological education for sustainable development

Abstract

The article is devoted to ecological education - next stage of integration of sciences for solution of ecological problems which are very up-to-date for Russia. Main tasks of ecological education are development and formation of ecological culture of personality and society, ecological consciousness and thinking, spiritual experience of interaction between man and nature which provides his survival and development. In order to assess the level of ecology studies at secondary school in 2000 the author performed formalized interview of 10th-graders from Kazan schools.