FORMATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL ORIENTATION OF STUDENT’S MENTALITY

The motivational core of the formation of the environmental orientation of a professional is a strategic factor in the development of personal potential, determining the role in a qualified professional activity, and is the product of this activity. The aim of the work is to study the ways of formation of environmental orientation of student’s mentality during training. The methodological basis of the study was a comparative analysis, empirical methods and modeling. The authors consider the practice-oriented professional ecological education of students as one of the system methods of ecological education. The study of the ecological orientation of student’s mentality suggests that modern trends in the development of vocational education predetermine the creation of a new personality stereotype of a specialist who is able to mentally anticipate real environmental situations of a situation, analyze them and make timely, competent and professional decisions.