Rudkowskaja I. Ecologic and Aesthetic Upbringing in Schools of Germany

Thesis deals with a subject-matter, a purpose, tasks, forms, methods, principles of forming ecologic and aesthetic upbringing in schools of Germany. Pedagogical conditions of fostering ecological consciousness of pupils by aesthetical means have been grounded. The basic conceptual position of ecologic and aesthetic upbringing of a growing generation in different Federal Lands of Germany is an obligatory inclusion of wide spectrum of humanitarian disciplines in schools environmental education curricula which help to develop an aesthetic acceptation of natural environment. A specificy of teacher training for ecologic and aesthetic upbringing of schoolchildren has been analyzed too. The author gives propositions how to implement the results of investigation in ecologic and aesthetic upbringing of schoolchildren in Ukraine, taking into account a specificy of national pedagogy and ways of reforming of its school system.