The Formation of Ecological and Economic Competences in the Context of the Stable Development of the Carpathian Region

Abstract

The paper deals with the peculiarities of the formation of ecological and economic
competences at modern school. The paper shows that ecological and economic education is
continuous and uninterrupted psychological process which is directed towards the formation of
knowledge, culture and consciousness of a person. Attention is paid to the problems of
environmental and economic situation in the Carpathian region of Ukraine. Ecological and
economic model of education can develop effectively only on the basis of humanistic orientation
and innovation potential of the educational institution. The humanization provides increased
attention to the individual as a whole, the promotion of its abilities, physical and moral qualities.
Modern education aims to form environmentally and economically responsible person, that is
ready for the conscious activity on the basis of the gained knowledge and formes behavioral norms
and rules concerning the environment. Humanity has the ability to choose either the path of
environmental and economic education, or the path of the global catastrophe and self-destruction.
Civilized, cultured people are called to protect and multiply the good, by laws and authority to
establish the highest spiritual values of the life in the society and public opinion. Only intelligence
and environmental and economic culture, that is continuous educational training and educational
activity, may generate culture of society, relevant to the permanent development, and transfer its
relationships with the environment on the way of intelligent coexistence.