Environmental Awareness Among Prospective Teachers

environsal Awareness among Prospective Teachers of Himachal Pradesh Dr. Ajay Kumar Attri Lecturer, Deptt. Of raising, MLSM College Sundernagar, Mandi (HP) ABSTRACT The present study was undertaken to compare the environmental sensation of male and female, science and arts and boorish and urban prospective teachers of Himachal Pradesh. The sample comprised 260 (cxxx male and 130 female) prospective teachers. For the study Environment Awareness Ability bankers bill (EAAM) was developed and standardized by Parveen Kumar Jha (1998) consisted of 71 items was used.It was comprise that environmental sensory faculty of prospective teachers of Himachal Pradesh remains almost the same as far as effect of gender, stream and venue is concerned. This may be attributed to the incident that prospective teachers of Himachal Pradesh were studying Education for military personnel Value, Environment and Human Right as a compulsory subject during their B. Ed course. INTRODUCTION India is unita ry of the first countries where the constitution recognized the need for harmonizing environmental concerns with ripening.Article 48A specifically directs The state shall endeavor to protect and improve the environment and to safeguard the forest and wildlife in the country and Article 51A (g) enjoins upon Indian citizens a fundamental duty to protect and improve the natural. The concept environment can be understood in completely of all components surrounding the man i. e. environment is the sum of all social, biological, physical and chemical factors which compose the surroundings of man. Each component of these surroundings constitutes a vision on which man draws with a view of promoting human welfare.According to a Report of a Conference of African Education at Nairobi (1968) environmental Education is to create an awareness and understanding of the evolving social and physical environment as a whole, its natural, manmade, cultural, spiritual resources to line upher with the rational use and conservation of these resources for development. CONCEPT OF ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS The issue of environmental awareness is becoming global in nature. It has also drawn the attention of common people as environmental degradation and pollution are causing a serious threat to survival of mankind. at that place are several factors like thinning of ozone layer, asylum of ozone hole, over population of many developing countries, the ever-increasing natural and technological disasters and threat of chemical and radiation hazards are threatening to wipe out the humanity from the earth. in that respect are four major and integrating components of environmental awarenessknowledge, real life situation, conservation and sustainable development. Himachal Pradesh government is trying to promote the development of an economically and environmentally sound eco-system while endeavoring to improve the living standards of the people in the state.The government is conscious of the intrinsic judge of the environment and of ecological, genetic, social, economic, scientific, educational, cultural, recreational and aesthetic determine there of further the government of Himachal Pradesh is trying to conserve and enhance the environment and follow a policy of sustainable development. Being aware of its central theatrical role in directing the development on a sustainable matrix, it calls upon people of Panchayatiraj, Local bodies, institutions and the organs of state for extending their full cooperation in this effort.REVIEW OF RELATED look for The number of research studies has been undertaken by investigators on environmental awareness of students at various directs of education and findings of the same are as Shahnawaj (1990) found that a in truth high level of awareness existed on the part of teachers and students and also found that environmental awareness was more in urban groups than in the verdant group. Santipapwiwatana (1991) reason out that awaren ess of students was satisfactory with respect to environment. Gopalkrishan (1992) inferred that children were inspired from nvironmental education. Patel (1994) observed that the male teachers with long school experience of urban area are more aware just about the environment education. Vashisht (1995) inferred that the level of awareness was found to be higher in case of boys as compared to girls. Bala (1996) indicated that level of awareness of university students especially university boys were satisfactory with respect to environment. Kumari (1999) found that clubby school teachers were more aware about environment as compared to government school teachers.Sharma (2000) indicated that urban students were more aware about their environment, about forests and environment component as compared to bucolic students. Owena (2000) cogitate that the environmental literacy of urban middle school teachers were almost satisfactory. Thakur (2003) concluded that at primary stage both the rural and urban students are not much aware about environmental situation. Biasan (2005) concluded that both government and private school students have the same level of environmental awareness.Nagra and Dhillon (2006) inferred that acquirement teachers showed higher environmental education awareness than art teachers. Nagra, et. al. (2007) showed that secondary school teachers showed remarkable variation in environmental education awareness than elementary school teachers. The male and female secondary school teacher showed significant variation in environmental educational awareness. OBJECTIVES 1. To find out the significant remnant between stringent rack up of Male and egg-producing(prenominal) prospective teachers of Himachal Pradesh on environmental awareness. 2.To investigate the significant discordence between mean scores of Science and Arts prospective teachers of Himachal Pradesh on environmental awareness. 3. To study the significant difference between mean scores of rural and urban prospective teachers of Himachal Pradesh on environmental awareness. HYPOTHESES 1. There will be no significant difference between mean scores of Male and Female prospective teachers of Himachal Pradesh on environmental awareness. 2. There will be no significant difference between mean scores of Science and Arts prospective teachers of Himachal Pradesh on environmental awareness. . There will be no significant difference between mean scores of rural and urban prospective teachers of Himachal Pradesh on environmental awareness. METHOD AND action In the present study descriptive survey method of research was used and following method and procedure was used. POPULATION All the prospective teachers of private B. Ed colleges of Himachal Pradesh constituted the population of the study. SAMPLE For the selection of 260 prospective teachers (130 male and 130 female) from the 8 private B. Ed colleges, method of convenient sampling was adopted. multivariate STRUCTURE Gende r, Stream and locale constituted the independent variables whereas Environmental awareness was the criterion variable. TOOLS USED IN THE STUDY Environment Awareness Ability Measure (EAAM) was developed and standardized by Parveen Kumar Jha (1998) consisted of 71 items was used. The value of Reliability co-efficient varies between 0. 61 to 0. 84. It was quite valid as the items in it had already been treated and their marrow made relevant by incorporating the suggestions of the various experts. RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONTo test the hypothesis of the study t-test was performed on the scores of environmental awareness. The summary of the obtained results has been presented in Table-1. It is evident from the table-1 that the t-value testing the significance of mean difference among the Male and Female prospective teachers was calculated as 0. 15, which is non-significant both at 0. 05 and 0. 01 levels of confidence, which reflects that mean scores of Male and Female prospective teachers of Himachal Pradesh do not differ significantly on environmental awareness.Thus, the null hypothesis that There will be no significant difference between mean scores of total Male and total Female prospective teachers of Himachal Pradesh on environmental awareness is accepted. Thus it may be concluded that Male and Female prospective teachers dont differ significantly in their awareness toward environment. Table 1 Summary of the Statistical Calculations for Obtaining t-values with date to Environmental Awareness among Prospective Teachers of Himachal Pradesh on Gender, Stream and Locale Group N Mean S.D. t-value Result (Prospective Teachers) Male 130 44. 20 4. 52 0. 15 none-significant at 0. 05 level Female 130 44. 12 3. 91 Science 130 44. 8 4. 88 0. 44 Non-significant at 0. 05 level Arts 130 44. 05 3. 45 Rural 65 43. 94 5. 10 Non-significant at 0. 66 0. 05 level Urban 65 44. 46 3. 87 Further, Table-1 indicates that the calculated t value sh owing the significant difference in the mean scores of Science and Arts prospective teachers came out to be 0. 44, which is not significant even at 0. 05 level of confidence thereby, accepting the null hypothesis that There will be no significant difference between mean scores of Science and Arts prospective teachers of Himachal Pradesh on environmental awareness. Hence it may be concluded that Science and Arts prospective teachers of Himachal Pradesh dont differ significantly on environmental awareness i. e. they have almost similar awareness toward environment.Table-1 further shows that thet-value reflecting the significance of mean difference among the rural and rural prospective teachers of Himachal Pradesh was calculated as 0. 66, which is non-significant at 0. 05 level of confidence. Thus, the null hypothesis that There will be no significant difference between mean scores of rural and urban prospective teachers of Himachal Pradesh on environmental awareness stands accepted. T hus, it may be concluded from the above interpretation that rural and urban prospective teachers of Himachal Pradesh dont differ significantly at environmental awareness i. . locale does not show much effect on environmental awareness of prospective teachers of Himachal Pradesh. 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