MORAL AND VALUE APPROACH TO THE PROBLEM OF CHILDREN'S ATTITUDE TO THE ENVIRONMENT

The article reveals the main ways and means of moral and value-based attitude towards nature, the formation of methods of moral behavior and activities of children, the ability to be guided by ethical concepts in specific actions. An emotional and value-based attitude towards nature as a component of an individual’s ecological culture is formed in the process of a child’s social development and is, in fact, the assimilation of socio-historical experience in the process of active interaction with nature, contributing to the formation of personal experience. A moral and value-based attitude towards nature requires the purposeful cultivation of moral feelings, the formation of moral consciousness and the acquisition of skills and habits of moral behavior.