PRIMARY SCHOOL FOURTH GRADE STUDENTS’ ECOLOGICAL ATTITUDE DIAGNOSTICS
PRIMARY SCHOOL FOURTH GRADE STUDENTS’ ECOLOGICAL ATTITUDE DIAGNOSTICS

Author(s): Vincentas Lamanauskas, Dalia Augienė
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Education, School education
Published by: Scientia Socialis, UAB
Summary/Abstract: Ecological attitude education in primary school is both important and special. That way fundamental moral values of a young person are formed. Every day increasing ecological problems become much more diverse. It is important to develop a man able to perceive the current ecological situation and able to live in a harmonious interaction with nature. It is sought that ethical, aesthetical, psychological, juridical person’s relationship with nature would become the criterion of culture. The formation of a positive relationship with the surrounding world, the environment remains a very significant element of education in a primary school. It is hopeful that the attitudes with respect to nature formed at this ontogenesis stage will remain for the whole life. In this context, it is very important to appropriately diagnose the current attitude structure and on the basis of diagnostics correspondingly organise the education process. In April 2019 a pilot research was carried out, in which 127 primary school fourth class students took part.It was stated that in the attitude structure of this age children, the aesthetic attitude was prevalent. The last according to the ranking was the ethical attitude. Correspondingly, in the second position was the cognitive, and in the third – the pragmatic one.

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