Slavska Y. Ecological and aesthetic upbringing at schools in Donbass (at the end ХХ - early ХХI centuries)

There were determined conditions that initiated occurrence and development of ecological-aesthetic education of youth at the end of XX - beginning of XXI century. There was made historical-educational analysis of tendencies in school ecological-esthetic education, major stages of its development were determined; there was made scientific-theoretical argumentation of modern paradigm of ecological-аesthetic education of youth in Donbass. Based on systematic analysis there were revealed common tendencies in determination of theoretical-methodological bases of ecological-аesthetic education of youth; there were determined major approaches towards differenciation of ecological-аesthetic education by functional characteristics in accordance with periods of nature defensive movement. There was summarized experience of ecological-аesthetic component reflection within the school educational work; the ways of improvement and increasing the quality of ecological-аesthetic training of students іn Donbass were demonstrated.