ecopsychology

The concept of environment is far from being a novelty in pedagogy. Along with this, at the present stage of the development of the environmental approach the following issues are actual: is the environmental approach a unity of qualitatively specific pedagogical principles alien to other approaches or does it present one of the educational technologies or its element (factor, resource or a means)?

The article describes the methodological foundations of psychological and pedagogical study of risks of suboptimal pupil interactions and learning environment from the standpoint of environmental psychology.

The article reports on the first international scientific and practical conference on ecological art therapy. The conference has an interdisciplinary character and reflects active development of the ecological direction in art therapy in its close connection with the ecology movement ecotherapy, ecopsychology, environmental education (education for sustainable development) and “green” art.