ТЕОРЕТИЧЕСКИЕ И МЕТОДОЛОГИЧЕСКИЕ ПРОБЛЕМЫ СОВРЕМЕННОЙ ПСИХОЛОГИИ И ПЕДАГОГИКИ THE ECOLOGICAL COMPETENCE OF FUTURE SPECIALISTS* A.V. Gagarin Department of Akmeology and Psychology of Processional Activity Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administrtion pr. <...> Vernadskogo, 82, Moscow, Russia, 119571 A.V. Ivaschenko Chair of Psychology and Pedagogy Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia Miklukho-Maklaya str., 6, Moscow, Russia, 117198 The study aims at identifying the essence-functional and structure- and content-related particularities of future employees’ environmental competence, as well as the conditions and factors of its development. <...> Key words: environmental competence, future employee, conditions and factors of development. <...> The topicality and importance of scientific understanding of the methods used for cultivating future employees’ environmental competence, the specific scientific analysis of objective and subjective factors, the conditions and means of tailoring the educational process in universities are justified, firstly, by a growing number of environmental issues on a planetary scale and, secondly, by the social and cultural need to develop students’ abilities, as well as their environmentally-oriented and humanitarian values. <...> The study, the basic results of which this article represents, was aimed at identifying the essence-functional and structure- and content-related parti* This work is the creative team work under the theme No. 2-589-051302 «Ecological Competence of Personality: essence, gender and intercultural aspects, peculiarities of development», funded by the Russian Humanitarian Scientific Foundation (project No.10-06-00938a). 5 Вестник РУДН, серия Психология и педагогика, 2014, № 1 cularities of future employees’ environmental competence, as well as the conditions and factors of its development. <...> First of all, the study finds that today the key approaches to developing the environmental competence of future employees are: — the psycho-didactic approach (education promotes the actualization of reasoning and the content-related particularities of students’ psychological development via studying a certain subject) [14; 15]; — the eco-psychological approach (education aims at creating a potential-building environment as a mixture of conditions, influences and opportunities for developing a personality existing in the social and geographical surroundings) [1—7; 14; 15]; — the competence-related approach as such (education aims at mastering relevant skills including students’ personal attitude to them and the essence of profession) [1; 3; 7; 8—12]; — the akmeological approach (education aims at developing an individual <...>