Nowadays human ecology is defined as the interdisciplinary scientific trend, integrating natural, social sciences, the humanities, the science of art and other sciences. This trend studies the interaction between an individual, the social system and the environment from its holistic perspective

The changes that take place nowadays, including the development of new tendencies in the development of education, emphasize the importance of holistic approach in the research of these processes. The holistic approach may be ensured by the interdisciplinary studies. Therefore the ecological paradigm becomes more and more important for the modern educational research. Since the second half of the 20th century this paradigm has become the trans disciplinary scientific paradigm, which emphasizes the ecological approach as the imperative.

Ecology of Education is one of the trends of human ecology with its own history. Educational ecology as an interdisciplinary trend of research offers a wide range of research opportunities in the field of education. There exist the following conceptual approaches of research in the field of educational ecology: the interdisciplinary approach, the ecological approach, the humanistic approach, which complementary supplement each other, ensuring the holistic approach, first of all, systems approach, in the educational research. Ecology of Education as a research trend has a scientifically substantiated philosophical-methodological basis.

Ecology of Education offers several research perspectives, the substantiation of which we can find in the two main trends: 1) the ecology of human development; 2) ecology of systems development. One of the research perspectives is related to the studies of sustainable development. The research performed in the field of environmental education also has a significant place within the educational ecology.

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