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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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