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model for the formation of ecological culture of the military high school cadets in the museum educational context in the process of research activities
Khrabrova E.v.
The article covers the formation of ecological culture of military high school cadets in the process of the museum's research activities. The author defines the main mechanism of ecological culture formation, being characteristic of military high school cadets, and believes that the development of the cadets' ecological culture, while they are engaged in the research process, will be effective, provided an innovative research context has been set up within the educational activities scope of the high school's museum. For this purpose, the author suggests both considering the formation of ecological culture of military high school cadets in the process of the museum's research activities and revealing certain links between the following components: socio-cultural environment and the museum's one, the cadets' research activities and the setting up of the ecological display at the museum, which comprises the contents of the museum teaching science. The author considers this model to be efficient for the purposes of the formation of the cadets' ecological cul-
ture within the museum educational environment, as it has been proved efficient at a civil high school.
Keywords: ecology-oriented mentality, ecological culture, research activities, ecological display, museum educational context, innovation research context, socio-cultural context, humanitarization of military education.
The Earth's life and environment support systems are very vulnerable today, as the constantly increasing negative impact of man on the environment has led to the emergence of global problems. Military activity has become one of the causes of the devastating changes in the ecological balance of the living systems.
The issue of interaction of military activities, society and nature, being so tense, has resulted in a number of new challenges for military teaching science. Environment protection is a vitally important condition for the existence of human civilization, it concerns every citizen, including a soldier.
Today environmental culture is considered to be a key prerequisite to sustainable development of the world, the country or region. Ecological culture is the starting point for the revision of many values of the modern civilization.
Upon analyzing the psychological and educational literary sources, we concluded that among the factors that have a significant impact on the formation of ecological culture, little attention has been paid to visiting museums and environmental displays. In this regard, the results of the study by S.A. Stavropoltseva who researched the impact of various factors on a person's ecologically-oriented menta-
lity, seem model ones. The factors that were found, such as visiting nature museums and environmental exhibitions as well as others, are not considered to be considered «significant» [5].
Our study aimed at searching for the mechanism to develop the cadets' ecological culture concerns setting up an environmental display at the high school's museum, being made due to the cadets' research activities that greatly contributes to converting the museum into the most significant factor
While defining the essential features of a museum, A.M. Razgon described it as a research, scientific and educational institution that meets social needs to preserve and use the real-world objects as elements of historical memory, social information documentary means as well as aesthetic values; as an information and communication agency that is a kind of semiotic system. Museum is a unique public institution that is characterized by its specific features, different from other scientific, educational, cultural institutions [4].
Our supposition is that the development of the cadets' ecological culture while they are engaged in research activity will be efficient if innovative research context is created within the educational activity scope of the high school's museum. To construct such environment we had chosen an environmental display as a research centre for the cadets to join the research activity.
The value of the research activities for a cadet is thought to be the fact that its basis being not the kind of knowledge, but will predetermined by their deep intellectual and spiritual needs [6]. Mastering environmental skills is quite a complex and intellectually time-
consuming process, where independent work and continuous self-improvement in grasping elements of environmental management is of great importance.
We believe that it is a series of research activities carried out by the cadets designing the environmental display that give the creative nature to their environmental activities; the nature that manifests itself being aimed at transforming both the world and themselves.
We confirmed [7] that the search activity, which allows to consistently develop and clarify the content of both ideological and theoretical basis for the museum display, allows a cadet's personality to expand the «field of experience» (according to O.F. Vichkanova), contributing to the creative transformation of reality, supported by constant inner work on themselves.
Display activity has its own standards concerning display topics to be met while carrying out researches on environmental protection [3, P.198]. The museum's display is the main form of museum communication, its educational and training objectives being implemented by the demonstration of museum objects, which are organized, explained and placed in accordance with the museum's scientific concept [3, p. 197].
Museums contribute to forming ecology-conscious mentality and environmental culture of the cadets, creating socio-cultural developing context. Today there is a process of reframing the museum's role and importance of presentation of historical reality, objects, nature displays, culture of their creation as well as the museum itself in the context of educational modernization and prevailing philosophical, cultural and artistic trends [4].
For example, in the studies by O.A. Lukashevich the socio-cultural environment is considered within the humanization process of professional education at a military high school. It concerns shaping the intended service persons' personality, being capable of understanding elements of ecological culture, as well as being spiritually rich, able to resist the negative stereotypes of thinking and behavior in the society and tackle the environmental problems of the today's world [3, 70].
Considering the modeling possibilities of the of the cadets' ecological culture formation process, we identified a variety of approaches to research the possibilities of museum education at the military high school, being the basis of scientific and research work.
The described model of the cadets' ecological culture formation in the museum's educational context while carrying out research activities by the cadets, we reflect the links between the following components: socio-cultural and educational context of the museum, the cadets' research activities and setting up an environmental display at the museum, which is the content of museum teaching science (pic. 1).
Using the procedure E.V. Asafova, we made the analysis of the level dynamics of the ecological culture of students (The affiliate of the Kuban State University in the city of Anapa) involved in the research activity aimed at setting up a museum display devoted to the 5th anniversary of the environmental disaster that had occurred in the Kerch Strait in 2007. The study showed that the museum educational context has a significant impact on improving the ecological culture of the students of both biological and non-biological disciplines [7].
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pic. 1. The model of the cadets ' ecological culture formation in the museum's educational context while carrying out research activities by the cadets
Thus, the proposed model proves to be efficient not only in the formation of ecological culture of students at civil high schools, but also while educating cadets at military high schools within the museum's educational context, due to its advanced nature.
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data about the author
Khrabrova Elena vasilevna, graduate student
Kuban State Agrarian University, Anapa branch
11, Chernomorskaja str., Anapa, Krasnodar, 353440, Russia
