COGNITIVE AND EMOTIVE ASPECTS OF LEARNING POPULATION EDUCATION AMONG STUDENTS IN CHENNAI
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https://doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v8.i2.2020.206Keywords:
Population Education, Cognitive, Emotive, School, Learning, AttitudeAbstract [English]
The main purpose of educational programmes has to create the realization in every teacher in regarding the close relationship between education and social change for which a strong educational base is needed for any social revolution. Through population education teacher should try to form the correct attitudes in adolescents striding in schools and colleges, so that by the time they get into the reproductive stage they would be in a position to make their own decisions. Population Education is must in school education because young people all over the world have common needs in order to achieve full and healthy development; a positive and stable family life; an understanding about their bodies, including the emotional and physical capacities that enable them to have sexual relations and reproduce; an awareness of population issues and how these issues will affect them; and the knowledge and skills to deal with these matters responsibly, now and in the future. The present study assesses the cognitive and emotive aspects of population education among students and reveals attitude of the students towards population education.
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