Publication details
Environmental education and legal socialization
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| Year of publication | 2026 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | This paper deals with forming a responsible relationship to the environment and sustainable development, for which environmental education is the key, which not only transfer ecological knowledge, but also cultivates people in the field of nature protection. Applying Kohlberg's theory of moral development, the authors recall the issues of creating attitudes and accepting values, as well as the interconnection of social behaviour and social values. Cognitive maturity is a necessary, but not sufficient, prerequisite for moral reasoning of higher stages of moral development. Therefore, it is very important, in addition to acquiring knowledge, to develop proper internal motivation, which seems to be the most difficult task in today's hedonistically oriented society. This paper includes model types of legal socialization, including a number of examples that demonstrate the necessity of values, attitudes, internal motivation and critical thinking, which enable people to adequately understand the legal environmental regulations, which often damage nature in the interests of economic and contemporary civilization needs. Without deep understanding and internalized motivation of environmental protection the human cannot act in the interests of nature and pursue reasonable environmental regulations. At the end of this paper, the authors clearly present the questions and problems that research in this area faces. |