Problematika ochrany a tvorby zivotniho prostredi ve vychovne vzdelavacim procesu strednich skol v CSSR

In conformity with the suggestions of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) and the East European Education Committee (MSOP) the problems of the human environment protection and development have been introduced to all the secondary school subjects, in a variable degree, in all the member countries of the Committee. The new qualitative level of influence of the society on the nature and the natural environment of man creates a pressure on the actual range and structure of some of the school courses (biology, geography, social sciences, etc.). In the Czechoslovak secondary schools the most comprehensive and broadest approach to the environment development and protection can be accomplished within the course on society subject in the following issues: the socialist workstyle, man and his environment, natural environment versus social environment, culture and its components, countermeasures against devastation, and same others. The time assigned for biology and geography teaching is inadequately used for the education on the human natural environment. A more specialist approach to the environmental problems is offered to professional schools of such specialities as: metallurgy, (coal and ores) mining, geology, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, chemical technology, building engineering, etc. This body of problems are considered in terms of the technical and technological needs, as well as from standpoint of legislation related to the obligations of manufacturing plants and discipline at work. Considerable emphasis is placed on the issues of the hygiene and industrial safety. The inclusion of the human environment development and protection in the educational process of Czechoslovak secondary achools results from the need of providing their graduates with comprehensive knowledge, and especially in the aspect of its practical application, the knowledge which would meet the social needs.