Ideas of sustainable development as a condition for the integrity of the content of environmental education

Abstract

In the 21st century, the ideas of sustainable development has become system-forming in all spheres of society. The goals of transition to the biosphere-compatible model of socio-economic development determine the key strategies of changes in economy, education, and culture. The ideas of sustainable development are penetrating into the content of education based on the process of ecologization of educational subjects. Ecological components of education, as a potential receptor of sustainable development ideas, are present in the content of almost all educational subjects. However, the problem of their coherence among themselves has not been solved so far. The continuing fragmentation of environmental content reduces the effectiveness of mastering the ideas of sustainable development and the formation of a modern scientific picture of the world. The author proposes to consider the problem of the integrity of environmental components of general education in interrelation with the realization of cross-cutting value and worldview lines of education for sustainable development. On the example of the key concept of education for sustainable development “ecological imperative” the possibilities of including the vector of sustainable development in environmental education are considered.