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The paper focuses on the empirical study of the attitude to the nature in a sample of student teachers. The study was conducted by Thompson and Barton´s [8] questionnaire aimed to assess the ecocentric approach in this group. The second tool used was a questionnaire of won provenience of the study author called Animal Respect Questionnaire (AniRe). The AniRe questionnaire is a unidimensional tool designed to assess the responders’ respect for animals. The research has shown a significant difference between ecocent...

The author aims at the Ethical Education teaching introduction realized at primary and secondary schools in the Slovak Republic. This subject creates a main supporting area for pupil´s and student´s moral development. Besides the education aspects, the author points at the importance of critical and analytical thinking processes development within this class as a mean of helping and enabling to deepen the understanding and internalization of moral values and norms.