Full Length Research Paper
An investigation into the
attitude of secondary school
students towards environmental
education in Purulia District of
West Bengal, India
Rahul Sen and
Santosh Kumar Behera*
Abstract
Now-a-days, we are facing so
many problems such as
physical, psychological,
social, economical,
spiritual, political etc.
Added to this in the new
millennium the environmental
crisis has become another
important factor which has
made every one in the world
to think its gravity. In the
circumstance, Environmental
Education (EE) plays an
important role for creating
awareness among the
students. Environmental
education is an integral
process which deals with
man’s interrelationship with
his natural and man-made
surrounding’s including the
relation of population
growth, pollution resources
allocation and depletion,
conservation, technology and
urban and rural planning to
the total human environment.
In the present study the
investigators made an
attempt to study the
attitude of secondary school
students towards
environmental education in
Purulia district of West
Bengal. One hundred and
fifty students (both Boy and
Girl) reading in classes IX
and X were taken as
representative sample of the
whole population. An
attitude scale was used for
collecting the data. The
means of both groups were
tested for significance of
difference by using CR test.
The differences in the
groups were statistically
significant and the attitude
of secondary school students
was satisfactory or average
towards environmental
education.
Key words: Attitude,
Environment, Environmental
Education.
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