Implementation of Ecological Education in a Higher School

The necessity of ecologically-based education is substantiated in connection with global ecological problems. The organization of learning process in a higher school is considered using the example of a set of disciplines at the Biological Institute of Tomsk State University which is directed to the ecologization of education. Disciplines of soil science course are shown to have a special place in the formation of students’ ecological culture. The interdisciplinary character of these disciplines is determined as a central connecting element of biogeocenosis; the importance of soils stable development conservation in the process of their usage is also confirmed.