Abstract

The study was carried out with a sample of 130 student teachers from various colleges of education situated in Mumbai Region. A researcher made environmental depletion scale based on five major aspects of environmental depletion known as Eco-system destruction, Habitat destruction, Extinction of Wildlife, Climate Change, Water Scarcity and Energy shortage and Pollution was used for this research study. The results indicated that there was no Significant difference in the Environmental depletion awareness scores between the male and female student teachers of Mumbai Region. For Graduate and Post Graduate student teachers, there existed a significant difference Environmental depletion awareness score. Further Between the experienced and Inexperienced student teachers, there existed a highly significant difference in the Environmental depletion awareness scores. The results indicated that the environmental depletion awareness differs among student teachers due to experience and educational qualifications and not based on gender revealing that experience and higher educational qualifications definitely play a pivotal role in creating environmental depletion awareness.

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