SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT PLAY A VERY CRUCIAL ROLE IN HAPPINESS OF THE SCHOOL CHILDREN
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https://doi.org/10.29121/shodhkosh.v5.i4.2024.5916Keywords:
School Environment, Happiness, School Infrastructure, Behaviour of Teaching and Non-Teaching Staffs, Students Related Variables, Curricular Activities, Co-Curricular ActivitiesAbstract [English]
Purpose: Happiness is the inner feeling, joy and satisfaction state of the all living beings. The young and growing children percept and feel their surroundings with curiosity. The research aims to illustrate that the components of school environment play an important role in happiness of school children.
Design/methodology/approach: For this study, 300 students from various junior high schools were selected randomly from class 6th, 7th and 8th of basic Shiksha parishad district Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh, India. The tool for the study was self-made attitude scale consisting of 50 items in which five dimensions of the school environment were taken, each dimension having 10 items related to that dimension. Quantitative research technique has been used for the data analysis, t-test was done to test the null hypotheses whether they are significant or not.
Findings: The data analysis revealed that most of the (90.09%) students feel happy with various dimensions of the school environment. Various dimensions of school environment are School Infrastructure, Behaviour of Teaching and Non-teaching staffs, Students related variables, Curricular and Co-curricular activities, among which Students related variables contribute most in the happiness of the students.
Educational Implications: Happiness is an important construct which is related with the well-being of the school children, so the present study will be significant for the school administrators, teachers and policy makers to enrich the school environment with curricular and co-curricular activities to increase the happiness level of the students.
Originality/Value of the work: The study contributes to the existing knowledge about the school environment and student`s happiness. The students of Basic Siksha Parishad of class 6th, 7th and 8th were from weaker section and deprived of the basic resources. Reflection obtained from the real data provides a vast view about the components of the school environment and their role in the happiness of school students.
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Kumar, Ramesh; Chakravarty, Ritu T; Sharma, Shantanu. (2023). “A Study of Happiness of Junior High School Students with reference to the Curricular and Co-curricular activities of School Environment”. Shodh Disha, 62/F, April-June 2023, ISSN 0975-735X (UGC approved Care listed Journal).
Kumar, Ramesh; Chakravarty, Ritu T; Sharma, Shantanu. (2024). “A Study of Happiness of Junior High School Students with reference to the School Environment in India”. AMNAYIKI, Department of Veda, BHU. Vol.-26, Part-ll (July-Dec. 2024). ISSN: 2277-4270. (UGC Care listed).
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