Psychological and Pedagogical Problems in Ecological Education

In Russia, indeed throughout the world, people are becoming increasingly aware of the necessity of reconstructing the traditions of education, above all, ecological education. This is essential today if the viability of the "Fourth World," on which the viability of the entire earth depends, is to be maintained. It is impossible to develop the potential of the traditions of education accumulated in ethnopedagogy without profound psychological knowledge of these traditions, how they have become established not only in pedagogy but also in anthropology, ethnography, and history. These traditions are a kind of reservoir containing much of value for building the ecological consciousness that is needed by the upcoming generation of our own and other peoples.