NATURAL SCIENCES AS BASIS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF PATRIOTISM AMONG SCHOOL-LEARNERS: PEDAGOGICAL ORIENTATION

The need in development of patriotism among European countries' citizens have objective (environmental changes, ecological and economic crisis, migration process, unequal dis-tribution of labour force) and subjective reasons that is developmental peculiarities of per-son's subjective features (personal ambitions, national identity, connections with nature and other people). These reasons determine paths of patriotism development in each country. Pa-triotism in the meaning of “attachment of people (person) to their place of birth, place of liv-ing and its' arrangement” is one of the most adequate phenomena in contemporaneity. Natural sciences research natural habitat of people and their cultural peculiarities. The use of innovative approach to understanding of “patriotism” in this context will provide reconstruction of fading feelings, attitudes and actions in the environment in person's consciousness, it will also help to encourage them to create prosperous material and spiritual living conditions in their place of birth and in the place where they live and will live in the future. Natural sciences can act as basic sciences for school-children helping them to study the nature of their place of living. Educational standards of different countries include “Environmental study” in the educational programme of elementary school. The content of this school subject consists of two components - natural sciences (revealing characteristics and conditions of the environment) and social sciences (giving the reason for creating person's relationships with the environment). Using this integrative approach the teacher provides complex study of the word and person in all his or her diverse connections for elementary school children.