The main directions of forming the environmental culture of future primary school teachers

Introduction. Considering ecology as the general state of the environment, and its protection and defense as the primary task of society, we note the urgent need to understand the quality training of those whose environmental education will ensure competent professional work with students. Environmental education and upbringing of future primary school teachers, their professional training, requires identifying and describing in detail the main directions of forming an environmental culture. Problem and aim. The problem of the study is obvious: what are the main directions of forming the environmental culture of future primary school teachers. Aim: to identify and characterize the main directions of forming the environmental culture of future primary school teachers. Materials and methods. The survey involved 75 full-time and part-time students of the Institute of Psychology and Pedagogy of the Yelets State University named after I.A. Bunin (Russian Federation). The context of the study was determined by fourteen questions, ten of which were multiple-choice and four were open-ended. Percentage distribution methods were used for statistical data processing. Results. The study showed that 60 respondents of full-time and part-time education (80% of the total number of survey participants) chose the main areas of development of environmental culture of future primary school teachers as those suggested by the authors of the publication, and only 15 respondents (20%) found it difficult to choose the answers. Conclusion. The following were identified and characterized as the main areas of development of environmental culture of future primary school teachers: development of students' environmental thinking and behavior; interdisciplinary approach to environmental education; continuity of environmental education and independent research activities.