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THE PROGRAM OF EEIU PRIDNEPROVYE CHAPTER

The ethical doctrine about human morals has been developed over long stretches of mankind's history. In the last decades global and regional ecological problems presented an instant necessity of creating a special aspect of ethics: ecological ethics, or eco-ethics. The need of eco-ethics can be described by the term "deontology" (from "deon" — necessity, debt and "logos" — doctrine), offered by the English philosopher Bentamon (1748-1832) and used in the field of medical ethics by the well-known Russian psychiatrist, AE Ushakov. The authority of the term is doubtless in line with eco-ethics, as this concept means "science about the debt, intellectual duty, professional ethics... Deontology is especially relevant in sections of professional work, which address interhuman relationships and accountable interplays" (Lakosina IA, Ushakov AE, Medical psychology- M.:Medicine, 1984, N72). Rephrasing those words, but already with reference to the concept of eco-ethics, we should add that the ecological deontology uncovers features of the debt of people to nature, and also our intellectual duty to society for guards of health of the biosphere and mankind, for the most effective operations concerning the solution of ecological problems which have arisen due to faults of mankind. Accordingly the program the EEIU Super Chapter 'Pridneprovye' comprises:

1. Organization of an educational center on eco-ethics at the EEIU
2. Preparation and realization of working seminars for teachers of ecology at state and commercial high- and secondary schools, colleges, lyceums at municipal and regional levels for correcting the programs of ecological educational courses (basic ecology, professional ethics, social ecology, human ecology, unwood resources of a forest, etc.)
3. Preparation and realization of municipal and regional olympiads among students of secondary- and high schools, gymnasiums, lyceums (Ecology and culture of behavior, etc.)
4. Organization and realization of exhibitions/competitions of school and student creativity with engaging professional artists, cultural workers, prominent ecologists of city and region (Nature and Man, Harmony and Beauty in Nature, Cleanliness in Nature, etc.)
5. Establishment of contacts with international organizations (Youth and environment of Europe, Friends of the Earth), with educational center of Dnepropetrovsk of Preobrazhensk Cathedral "Christian ethics in ecology". Organizations of conferences together with representative of the Orthodox Church and other religious concessions on problems: Attitude towards Nature, Kindness and Evil in world, Aggression — danger of the XXI century, Noosphere, Orthodoxy is basic of ecological consciousness
6. Preparation and implementation of joint projects on eco-ethics with Youth Groups and other non-governmental organizations (Pridneprovye Youth Ecological League, Zeleniy Swit, Mama-86, etc.), with municipal and regional state institutions of the executive authority (Dnepropetrovsk Ecology administration, etc.)
7. Creation of EEIU Youth Sections
8. Preparation for the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine of well-founded proposals concerning the creation of an education branch of ecological ethics and on future directions in ecology and biology. Discussions of specialists in high schools of Ukraine of draft program on the branch ecological ethics
9. Preparations for publishing regional All-Ukraine and International reference books "Specialists in the field of ecological ethics" (in Ukrainian, Russian, English)
10. Preparation for publishing an educational booklet on ecological ethics with the appendix including "The Moral code of ecologists", "The Standards of eco-ethics" etc.
11. Formation of educational standards, educational schedules, programs, methodological text-books, training programs ethics for state and public organizations, high and secondary schools
12. Preparation and realization of the action "Forest as bases of life on Earth", including:
    • Seminars for the participants with excursions demonstrating the disharmony, fraud and mutual suppression in natural ecosystems;
    • Seminars (3 to 5 days) for teachers of technical colleges and technical schools
13. Preparation of International Conference (Forums) "Ecological ethics of XXI century - on the way to global morals" with participation of non-governmental ecological agencies, scientists, politicians, public and religious figures, representative government bodies, mass media and ecologically oriented businessmen
14. Establishment of contacts with the State Educational Establishment aiming at improvements of professional skills and re-training of personnel of the Ministry of Ecological Security of the Ukraine with the purpose of furthering professional skills and re-training of the specialists in field of eco-ethics

Scientific Consultant: Assoc. Member, National Academy of Science, Anatoly P. Travleev

1. Introduction of emotional-figurative studies of eco-ethics by means of videofilms, demonstration of photoalbums and picture reproductions, collections of stones, excursions to reservation areas, botanical gardens etc.
2. Protection of flora-fauna by school children and students
3. Organization of summer ecological educational camps, tourist campaigns and special competitions
4. Making films about environmental conditions in Pridneprovye and participation in the International Festivals of Ecological Films using non-conventional methods of training students interested in ecological culture
5. Training eco-ethics at schools basic subjects (physics, biology, chemistry, Ukrainian language etc.)
6. Creation of profile educational classes with an ecology-ethical background
7. Development of lectures cycle for the pupils' parents (1 to 11 classes) on spiritual-ethical education. Parents' training on the concepts and rules of eco-ethics
8. Preparations and statements in high schools, colleges and lyceums of educational programs in the course of "Basic ecology" taking into consideration eco-ethics
9. Creation of round tables, business games, scientific-practical conferences on the theme "Eco-ethics", "We shall keep life around us", "How to become king and fair", "Kindness will rescue the world", "Man spiritual forces", "World of beauty" etc.
10. Student competitions of creative works, abstract compositions, figures, photos and propaganda teams on eco-ethics problems
11. Creation of a youth psychological service
12. Cooperation with scientists, artists, educators, with state and public organizations in the field of ecology. Establishment of contacts with spiritual-ethical organizations: Medical Academy of Spiritual Development, Dnepropetrovsk Educational Society "Orion-M", "Rerix society of Ukraine" etc.
13. Spiritual-ethical education of youth through concerts of classical music, composer, writer and artist presentations, festivals, exhibitions
14. Attraction of teachers and experts from both native and foreign higher schools for reading lectures about eco-ethics. Organization of exchange on ecological education

Noosphere: Greek - 'reason'

This notion was realistically developed by Vladimir I. Vernadsky in 1944 in his article: 'A few words on the noosphere' (Uspekhi Sovremennoy Biologii, Vol. XVIII, issue 2, pp.113-120). Being accepted by the established V. I. Vernadsky biogeochemical base of the biosphere as the initial position, E. le Roy (L'exigence idealiste et le fait d'evolution. P., 1927, p. 196) introduced a term 'noosphere' as the modern geological stage of the biosphere.

V.I. Vernadsky (1944) wrote in his work:
(a) 'The noosphere is the new geological phenomenon on our planet'.
(b) 'Now we are experiencing the new geological evolutional change of the bioshere. We are entering the noosphere. We are going in it — into a new natural process — in the terrible time, in the epoch of the destroying World War'.
(c) 'Noosphere is the last state after many states of the biosphere evolution in geological time: the state of our days'.

Vernadsky's main idea:
Humanity should use human reason in non-destructive interactions with the biosphere; this geological stage is called the noosphere, which is in harmony with the ideas of modern eco-ethics.

This page was last updated on 15 December 2003.