PRACTICE OF ECOLOGICAL AND AESTHETIC EDUCATION OF SCHOOLCHILDREN AT THE SECOND HALF OF XX – EARLY XXI CENTURIES

Abstract

There were determined conditions that initiated occurrence and development of ecological-aesthetic education of youth in Ukraine in the second half of XX – beginning of XXI centuries. There was made historical – educational analysis of tendencies in school ecological-aesthetic education, major stages of its development. There was made scientific-theoretical argumentation of modern paradigm of ecological-aesthetic education of youth in Ukraine. Based on systematic analysis there were revealed common tendencies in determination of theoretical-methodological bases of ecological-aesthetic education of youth in Ukraine. There were deter- mined major approaches towards differentiation of ecological-aesthetic education by functional characteristics in accordance with periods of nature defensive movement in Ukraine.