Rassolova, E. N., & Galkin, K. A. (2024). Environmental education in the USSR in the context of the development of the Yunnats movement (Young naturalist). Knowledge. Understanding. Skill, (2), 94-104.

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Abstract

The article examines the key stages of the formation and development of the Yunnats movement in the USSR. The authors actualize the role of scientific volunteerism and civic science in the context of the development of the young naturalists movement. The empirical basis of the research is scientific articles on philosophy, sociology of science and on the history of the development of science. The research method used in the article is qualitative content analysis. Using this method the authors were able to identify the stages of formation and development of the Yunnats movement in the USSR and the development of environmental education within the framework of the Yunnats movement. In total, the following stages have been identified: the stage of the emergence and institutionalization of the Yunnats movement in the 1918–1930s; the ideological stage in the 1930s–1950s; the stage of scientific institutionalization in the 1960s–1990s. Based on the conducted research, the authors were able to conclude about the scale of the project of the Yunnats movement in the USSR, and also determine that such a movement in the USSR was unique in its essence and in its development, unprecedented in its scientific saturation and research base. A distinctive feature of the Yunnats movement in the USSR is the systematic institutionalization and involvement of a large number of volunteer participants, and at later stages — active work on environmental education in schools and training of teaching staff. The results obtained in the study are also important from the point of view of the revival of the Yunnats movement in Russia, and environmental education in modern Russia.