FORMATION OF ELEMENTS OF ECOLOGICAL CULTURE IN CHILDREN OF YOUNGER SCHOOL AGE BY MEANS OF PEOPLE'S PEDAGOGY

The article actualizes the problem of the formation of the ecological culture of primary school children and the study of the possibilities of ethnopedagogy in this process. The author comes to the conclusion: the ped- agogical ethnocultural heritage, containing for centuries proven means of harmonious human existence in socie- ty, nature, subject to methodologically competent and methodically verified inclusion of younger schoolchildren in the process of environmental education and training, contributes to the intensification of the process of assimi- lation of environmental ideas, concepts, which is an integral part ecological culture of personality