Environmental Awareness Among Prospective Teachers

purlieual sentience among likely Teachers of Himachal Pradesh Dr. Ajay Kumar Attri Lecturer, Deptt. Of Education, MLSM College Sundernagar, Mandi (HP) ABSTRACT The present adopt was undertaken to compare the environmental sentience of potent and female, cognizance and arts and country and urban likely teachers of Himachal Pradesh. The consume comprised 260 (cxxx male and one hundred thirty female) potential teachers. For the pack environs sensory faculty Ability Measure (EAAM) was developed and regulate by Parveen Kumar Jha (1998) consisted of 71 items was aimd.It was gear up that environmental consciousness of prospective teachers of Himachal Pradesh remains well-nigh the same as far as event of gender, stream and venue is concerned. This whitethorn be attributed to the fact that prospective teachers of Himachal Pradesh were perusing Education for Hu humanness Value, Environment and Human skillful as a compulsory subject during their B. Ed course. INTRODUCTI ON India is one of the first countries where the constitution recognise the need for harmonizing environmental concerns with exploitation.Article 48A specifically directs The bow shall endeavor to protect and remedy the environment and to sentry duty the forest and wild support 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 unsounded in totally of all components surrounding the man i. e. environment is the sum of all social, biological, physical and chemical substance substance factors which compose the surround of man. Each component of these surroundings constitutes a resource on which man draws with a view of promoting human welfare.According to a story of a Conference of African Education at Nairobi (1968) environmental Education is to create an informedness and understanding of the evolving social and physical environment as a whole, its natural, manmade, cultural, spi ritual resources together with the rational use and conservation of these resources for development. CONCEPT OF ENVIRONMENTAL knowingness The issue of environmental cognizance is becoming world-wide in nature. It has also drawn the attention of jet people as environmental degradation and contamination are causing a serious panic to survival of mankind. in that location are several factors standardised thinning of ozone layer, creation of ozone hole, over community of legion(predicate) developing countries, the ever-increasing natural and technological disasters and threat of chemical and radiation hazards are threatening to wipe step forward the humanity from the earth. There are four major and integrating components of environmental cognisanceknowledge, real life situation, conservation and sustainable development. Himachal Pradesh organization is trying to nurture the development of an economically and environmentally sound eco-system duration endeavoring to improve the living standards of the people in the state.The politics is conscious of the intrinsic value of the environment and of ecological, genetic, social, economic, scientific, educational, cultural, volunteer(a) and aesthetic values there of further the authorities of Himachal Pradesh is trying to conserve and enhance the environment and heed a policy of sustainable development. Being aware of its central role in directing the development on a sustainable matrix, it calls upon people of Panchayatiraj, topical anesthetic bodies, institutions and the organs of state for extending their full cooperation in this effort. freshen OF RELATED RESEARCH The number of research studies has been undertaken by investigators on environmental ken of students at mixed take aims of education and projectings of the same are as Shahnawaj (1990) found that a very high take aim of awareness existed on the part of teachers and students and also found that environmental awareness was to a greater ex tent in urban groups than in the farming(prenominal) group. Santipapwiwatana (1991) cerebrate that awareness of students was adequate with honor to environment. Gopalkrishan (1992) inferred that children were inspired from nvironmental education. Patel (1994) observed that the male teachers with long develop experience of urban area are much aware near the environment education. Vashisht (1995) inferred that the level of awareness was found to be higher(prenominal) in type 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 private take aim teachers were more aware about environment as compared to administration school teachers.Sharma (2000) indicated that urban students were more aware about their environment, about forests and environment component as compared to rural students. Owena (2000) concluded that the environmental lit eracy of urban middle school teachers were almost satisfactory. Thakur (2003) concluded that at primary arcdegree some(prenominal) the rural and urban students are non much aware about environmental situation. Biasan (2005) concluded that both government and private school students build the same level of environmental awareness.Nagra and Dhillon (2006) inferred that Science teachers makeed higher environmental education awareness than art teachers. Nagra, et. al. (2007) showed that supplemental school teachers showed earthshaking 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 loss in the midst of entertain stacks of Male and feminine prospective teachers of Himachal Pradesh on environmental awareness. 2.To investigate the significant contrast surrounded by compressed get ahead o f Science and arts prospective teachers of Himachal Pradesh on environmental awareness. 3. To show the significant divergency between regard as tons of rural and urban prospective teachers of Himachal Pradesh on environmental awareness. HYPOTHESES 1. There pass on be no significant disagreeence between tight 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 PROCEDURE In the present occupy descriptive survey method of research was use and following method and procedure was used. POPULATION entirely 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 favourable sampling was adopted.VARIABLE STRUCTURE Gender, Stream and locus constituted the independent variables whereas environmental awareness was the standard variable. TOOLS USED IN THE STUDY Environment knowingness 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 content 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 wa s measured 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 non differ significantly on environmental awareness.Thus, the postcode 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 male parentt differ significantly in their awareness toward environment. Table 1 Summary of the statistical Calculations for Obtaining t-values with regard 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 Non-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 metrical t value covering 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, evaluate 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 nu ll 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. Thus, 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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