Abstract
Environmental Education (EE) has been introduced into the Malaysian Curriculum since 1992. Related to that, EE was found to be an important subject that must be known by the teachers, prior to teach EE indirectly in the classroom. Problems occurred while implementing EE in schools such as; less knowledge about EE an extra burden among teachers to teach. At Teachers Training Institute (TTI), EE is a compulsory subject due to complete their training and this study carried out to identify the attitude of teaching EE among pre-service teachers’. The reliability of the items showed 0.830 cronbach’s alpha. One hundred and twenty five respondents among pre-service teachers’ were analyzed and the result shows pre-service teachers’ have positive attitude towards teaching EE in classroom. Analysis of data shown that there are significant differences between male and female pre-service teachers’ in attitude of teaching, with t = 0.036 (p 0.05).
Highlights
Environmental Education (EE) has been introduced in Malaysian schools since 1980s [1]
The analysis showed that, pre-service teachers have a positive attitude towards teaching EE in classrooms during practicum
The results shows, there is a significant relationship between attitude and gender among pre- service teachers at Teacher Training Institute
Summary
Environmental Education (EE) has been introduced in Malaysian schools since 1980s [1]. Research has been done in this area by Ibrahim Sakimin [2]; Nor Akhmal Ismail [3]; Aziz Shamsudin [4]; Noor Azmi Osman [5]; Sumiani Yusoff [6]; Ng Tiak Sui [7]; Chuah [8] and Gan Siowck Lee [9]. Most studies about EE were carried out in schools by looking at the teachers and pupil’s knowledge and awareness. This research was carried out to study the attitude of teaching EE in classrooms during practicum among trainee teachers in Teachers Training Institute (TTI). It is important to seek a clear understanding on how the trainee teachers will educate pupils in future. The present study was set focus on the trainee teachers especially during the period they were sent out for the practicum
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