Stasiuk L. The Establishment and Development of the Ecological Education in the Village Ungraded Schools of the Western Ukraine (the Middle Half of the XX Centuries - the Beginning of the XXI Centuries)

The thesis maintains the results of the historical-pedagogical analysis of the establishment and development of the ecological education in the village ungraded schools of the Western Ukraine in the second half of the XX - the beginning of the XXI centuries. The research presents scientific and theoretical bases on the issue of the junior school children's ecological upbringing, taking into the consideration the specificity of the elementary school development in the region of the indicated period; determines the principle factors and preconditions of the junior school children's ecological upbringing in the village ungraded schools of the Western Ukraine. The main stages of the ecological upbringing development are justified: the stage of sovietizatization, reformation, net optimization. The analysis of the content characteristics is carried out and the complex of forms and methods of the ecological upbringing in the village ungraded schools of the Western Ukraine in the researched period is justified. The leading tendencies of the junior school children's ecological upbringing development in the second half of the XX - the beginning of the XXI centuries in the Western Ukraine are underlined.