Kurnyak L. Formation of the ecological culture of the student-youth in the conditions of the systemic transformation in the modern Ukraine

Thesis presents an analysis of the contemporary state and peculiarities in formation of the ecological culture of the student-youth in the period of the market relation development in Ukraine. It is shown that the most productive and heuristic are approaches grounded on activity platform of scientific cognition. They, in particular, allow distinguishing the notion of "ecological culture" as an aggregate of naturally-, socio-, and culturally- keeping actions and technologies, which provide a firm balance in the "man-environment" system, realization of the human-being approach to the conduction of various human-being activities from one side, and from the other - allow comprehending its theoretical sphere of knowledge about the place of the human-being in biosphere as a creature, an activity of which creates the balance in a biosphere vitality. The author proved that in the value meaning "ecological culture" takes the leading role in the structure of socio-cultural orientations of the modern student-youth wishing to subordinate to their formation all the existing and perspective possibilities of the educational process and extracurricular technologies.