A Study of Environmental Awareness among Higher Secondary School Students

Authors(2) :-Kaleem Ansari, Dr. Jai Prakash Singh

The issues of environmental problems and environmental education have been widely discussed in the last four decades all over the world at the several national and international workshops, conferences and seminars. People started realizing the urgent need of environmental education which will help individuals and social groups to acquire environmental awareness, knowledge, develop attitudes, skills and participation in solving environmental and its allied problems. In this study attempted to find out the environmental awareness among higher secondary school students on the basis of gender, class of study and stream of study. Total 180 higher secondary schools’ students recognized by U.P. board selected randomly from Aligarh city. For collecting data, the tool ‘Environmental Awareness Ability Measure’ developed by Dr. Praveen Kumar Jha was used. Mean, standard deviation and t-ratio test has been used for analysis of data. Main findings of this study are 1). No significant difference in environmental awareness between 11th and 12th class students. 2). Significant difference in environmental awareness between Male and female students. 3). No significant difference in environmental awareness between arts and science stream students.

Authors and Affiliations

Kaleem Ansari
Research Scholar, Department of Teacher Education, D. S. College, Aligarh, India
Dr. Jai Prakash Singh
Associate Professor & Head, Department of Teacher Education, D. S. College, Aligarh, India

Environmental Education, Environmental Awareness, Higher Secondary School Student

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Publication Details

Published in : Volume 4 | Issue 9 | July-August 2018
Date of Publication : 2018-08-08
License:  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Page(s) : 397-402
Manuscript Number : IJSRST1849145
Publisher : Technoscience Academy

Print ISSN : 2395-6011, Online ISSN : 2395-602X

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Kaleem Ansari, Dr. Jai Prakash Singh , " A Study of Environmental Awareness among Higher Secondary School Students", International Journal of Scientific Research in Science and Technology(IJSRST), Print ISSN : 2395-6011, Online ISSN : 2395-602X, Volume 4, Issue 9, pp.397-402, July-August-2018.
Journal URL : https://ijsrst.com/IJSRST1849145
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