Environmentally-Based Orientation of Higher Education as a Condition for the Formation of Students’ Experience of Emotional-Value Attitude to the Reality around Them

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Abstract. The aim of the study is to substantiate the inclusion of an environmentally-based component in the content of higher education as a necessary condition for the formation of students’ personal experience of an emotional-value attitude to the reality around them: to nature, oneself, health, work/profession, other people, the Fatherland. The article shows the options for an environmentally-based filling of education content composition, presented, according to the cultural theory of education content selection (I. Ya. Lerner, N. M. Skatkin, V. V. Kraevsky) by adapted social experience. From the standpoint of the social and personal components, the leading role of the emotional-value attitude in the structure of social experience is substantiated. Pedagogical conditions for the formation of students’ personal experience of the emotional-value attitude are determined. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the following: the little-studied aspects of applying the theoretical provisions of the cultural theory of education content selection in higher education are considered, with the emphasis on the leading role of the experience of the emotional-value attitude; the ways to include an environmentally-based component in the content of education, in the content of academic disciplines/modules, training materials and practical activity of participants in the educational process are identified. As a result, the priority in the structure of social experience is given to the leading role of the experience of the emotional-value attitude, which is a basic element of the culture of society and the most important element of the general culture of the individual. The possibility of the environmentally-based filling of the education content, specified in the content of academic disciplines/modules, based on their and specifics, is shown by the example of academic disciplines/modules of the mandatory part of the curriculum in the enlarged group of training areas 44.00.00 “Education and Pedagogical Sciences”. The pedagogical conditions for the organization of the educational process are determined, which allow changing the personal system of values, forming value orientations and beliefs that correspond to the co-evolution of nature, man, and society.