Abstract
Environmental awareness is to understand the fragility of our environment and the importance of its protection. Promoting environmental awareness is an easy way to become an environmental steward and participate in creating a brighter future for our children. The study aimed to examine the environmental awareness among secondary school students. The investigator adopted survey method to study the environmental awareness among secondary school students. For this study a sample of 300 secondary students from six Govt and Private schools which are situated in and around Coimbatore district in Tamil Nadu were selected by the investigator using simple random sampling technique. The findings reveal that there is no significant environmental awareness among secondary school students.
Highlights
Environmental Education involves the process of recognizing values and clarifying concepts in order to develop skills and attitudes necessary to understand and appreciate the interrelatedness among man, his culture and his bio physical surrounding (UNEP, 2012)
HYPOTHESIS 2: There is no significant mean score difference in environmental awareness among secondary school student between the groups based on type of school
It can be concluded that there is a significant difference in environmental awareness among secondary school student between the groups based on type of school
Summary
Environmental Education involves the process of recognizing values and clarifying concepts in order to develop skills and attitudes necessary to understand and appreciate the interrelatedness among man, his culture and his bio physical surrounding (UNEP, 2012). It is in this light that students understanding and level of awareness on various environmental concepts and problems is important. Environmental awareness is defined as the sum total of responses that people make to various thematic aspects of the construct environmental education In simple terms it means knowledge and understanding of facts and concepts related to environment and consequences of various environmental problems like pollution, population explosion, deforestation, ecological. Responsible environmental behavior is the ultimate goal of environmental education which is a key foundation to sustainable development (Yurtta and Sullun, 2010)
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