Abstract:
This article analyzes the concepts and role of environmental
education of the population, and also discusses the problems of forming an
ecological outlook among young people in the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Solving global issues, including environmental protection, fighting the
consequences of the environmental crisis, is comprehensive, including in
the field of education. The solution to the vital environmental issues and
problems faced by the world community is largely correlated with the
prosperity of environmental education and the upbringing of the future
generation. In this regard, the pedagogical and social aspects of
environmental education and the education of young people is the main
issue in the period of modernization in Kazakhstan. The problem of
environmental education of young people should be regarded as a
sovereign and self-valuable area of the educational development of the
people’s personality. The characteristic features include understanding of
the goals, objectives and detectors of the effectiveness of education, the
orientation of educational interaction in solving global and local
environmental issues, reinforcement of environmental education and
practical activities of public non-governmental organizations.
