KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDE OF M.Ed. TRAINEES TOWARDS ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
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https://doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v5.i6.2017.2003Keywords:
Knowledge, Attitude, Environmental Sustainability, M.Ed, TraineeAbstract [English]
Environmental sustainability is a global concept today. It is an approach to deal with mans relationship with resources, pollution, conservation, technology and urban and rural planning to the bio-sphere. Today, our environment is polluted due to various anthropogenetic factors. Educators, scientists, environment specialists and policy makers are rapidly pointing towards the human activities responsible for the destruction of the environment. To get rid of this problem, firstly we have to make the citizens aware. It can be done possible by the teaching-society. Therefore, the investigators made an attempt to find out the knowledge and attitude of M.Ed. trainees towards environmental sustainability. The investigators developed two tools- KEST and SMATES which had reliability co-efficient by Cronbach s alpha 0.749 and 0.656 respectively and were administered on 112 M.Ed. trainees randomly selected from 4 selected teachers training colleges measuring their knowledge and attitude towards environmental sustainability. Collected data was analysed by various statistical techniques like mean, standard deviation, t test and Pearsons correlation coefficient etc. through SPSS 20.0. The study revealed that educational stream had no significant impact on the difference of mean scores of knowledge and attitude of trainees towards environmental sustainability. On the other hand it was found that though gender had no significant impact on difference of mean scores of knowledge of trainees but it had significant impact on difference of mean scores of attitude of trainees towards environmental sustainability. Moreover, it was seen that knowledge and attitude towards environmental sustainability had significant moderate positive correlation (r= 0.445).
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