Methodological strategy of modern preschool environmental education based on the resource approach
Authors:   Institute for the Study of Childhood, Family and Education of the Russian Academy of Education, Golovanov Victor P. , Bykovskaya Tamara E. ,   Moscow Region State University, Panteleeva Natalya G. ,   Moscow Region State University, Fedorova Svetlana Yu. ,   Moscow Region State University, Tretyakov Andrey L. ,   Moscow Region State University
Published: March 2021

Introduction. In recent times, increasingly more attention is paid to the issues of human interaction with nature, since the future of the Earth and each of us – a responsible citizen and patriot of our Motherland – depends on his attitude towards it. Recently, a special role in the reorientation of education towards the goals and objectives of sustainable development has been assigned to the resource approach. The resource-based approach can claim to be the core of the new concept of education and preschool environmental education, in particular. The resource approach strategy should be formed as an alternative to modern trends in environmental education. The purpose of the article is a scientific, practical and experimental substantiation of the need to develop a methodological strategy for an innovative system of preschool environmental education based on a resource approach. Materials and methods. The study involved 416 children aged 4 to 7 years; 30 educators and 397 parents. The gender aspect was not taken into account in the research. The research bases were 28 preschool educational organizations of the Moscow region in the amount of institutions. Methods: pedagogical analysis of the process of environmental education, questioning and processing of the data obtained. The following diagnostic tools were used: the questionnaire “Directions of ecological and pedagogical activity of a modern educator”, the questionnaire "Assessment of the level of innovative potential of a teacher of preschool education of a new formation", the questionnaire "Analysis of the requirements for the developing environment, presented by the Federal State Educational Standard"; the comprehensive questionnaire to determine the level of environmental competence of all participants in educational and upbringing relations. Results. It was revealed that only 12% of respondents correctly and expediently build the architecture of educational and environmental activities with children. 52% of the parents surveyed are practically not at all aware of the program goals and objectives of the environmentally oriented educational activities of preschool education. A significant number of answers (67%) of parents indicate that within the social institution of family, there is a clear understanding of the need for environmental education, but there is no systematic work in this area. Among 9% of parents in the Moscow Region feel informational "hunger" in terms of environmental education for their children. Discussion and conclusion. Ecological developmental environment of preschoolers based on the resource approach has a positive impact on the formation of the foundations of the ecological culture of preschoolers under the following conditions: if it has a developing and health-saving character; if it is sufficiently informative and focused on the zone of proximal development of preschoolers; if it contains traditional and new, unusual components that facilitate the transition from simple forms of child's activity to more complex ones; if the components of the subject environment are interconnected in content, scale, artistic solution, etc.