Pop O. Environmental education of adolescents in secondary schools in Canada

The dissertation is devoted to the problem of environmental education in Canada. The relevance of the problem of the development of environmental education in Canada is substantiated in the dissertation. Based on the analysis of domestic and foreign scientific sources and official documents, the genesis of the development of environmental education is revealed; the prerequisites that contributed to the formation of the environmental education system in Canada were outlined; leading environmental philosophical concepts on environmental education of students were investigated. Based on the analysis of the work of Canadian teachers and the study of their experience in the development of environmental education, the main trend of this process is determined – the reorientation of school education to education for sustainable development. The leading principles of modernization of the content of environmental education were highlighted, the environmental component of the content of education in the regulatory educational documents of the provinces of Canada was analyzed. The content, forms and methods of environmental education of Canadian schoolchildren are determined. The development of environmental education is highlighted by the forms of education: formal, non-formal, informal. The peculiarities of interaction between state, public and educational institutions in the implementation of environmental education tasks in the work of extracurricular educational institutions in Canada are determined.