Legal regulation of environmental education: problems and ways of improvement
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https://doi.org/10.61345/1339-7915.2026.1.15Keywords:
environmental education, institute of environmental education in Ukraine, legal regulation of environmental education, environmental awareness, environmental culture, environment, ecologyAbstract
The article studies the institute of environmental education and analyzes the problems of its legal regulation in the context of adapting the norms of Ukrainian legislation to EU legislation and in the context of compliance with the goals of sustainable development.
It is noted that environmental education is one of the significant factors in ensuring human safety and forming its environmental awareness. The article defines the goal of environmental education, which is to form an ecological culture, ecological thinking and the formation of environmental awareness, based on the attitude towards nature as a unique value.
The features of the institute of environmental education in Ukraine and the EU countries and its legal regulation are studied. It is proved that in the EU countries, environmental education is one of the priority areas, developing in accordance with the provisions of the “European Green Deal”.
It is noted that environmental education in Ukraine is part of the national education system and aimed at harmonization with EU norms and in accordance with the goals of sustainable development. It was concluded that the institution of environmental education is not sufficiently regulated by national legislation, is fragmentary in nature and requires improvement through the adoption of a separate regulatory legal act: the Law of Ukraine “On Environmental Education”.
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