THE INTEGRATIVE APPROACHES TO THE FORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF ECOLOGICAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL CULTURE OF STUDENTS WITHIN THE HOLISTIC INFORMATION AND EDUCATION ENVIRONMENT OF A HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTION

The research determines the integrative nature of environmental issues caused by the human activity, and, on this basis, the efficiency of integrative approaches to the ecological issues solution is proved. The authors proved the appropriateness of the integrative approach to the formation and development of ecological culture of the higher education institution students as the approach of methodology of scientific knowledge and practice and showed the interrelation of the information and technological and socio-cultural competences of a university graduate with his ecological and technological culture, which includes the integration of ecological and technological components of general professional competence of a specialist’s personality. The authors noted the feasibility of the higher education institution students’ socialization through the formation and development of technological, ecological, information and economic culture. The paper describes the experience on the formation and development of ecological and technological culture of students within the holistic (integrative) information and education environment (HIEE) at the faculty of mathematics, physics and informatics in Samara State Academy of Social Sciences and Humanities. The authors give their definition for the holistic information and education environment (HIEE) and explain its role in the improvement of the efficiency of the educational process and the level of quality of training specialists through the synergetic effect and high degree of emergence. The authors expect and prove the key role of integrative approach to the effective formation and development of ecological and technological culture of students within the environment of high-technology HIEE of a higher education institution.