LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 15:3 March 2015
ISSN 1930-2940

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An Exploratory Study in Educating High School Children towards
Maintaining an Eco-Friendly Environment

Bhavya. N., Ph.D. Scholar
Dr. K. Purnima

Abstract

An exploratory study in educating high school children towards maintaining an eco-friendly environment was conducted as a part of Doctoral research by Dr. K. Purnima and Smt. Bhavya N. Children are the citizens of tomorrow and a great responsibility of protecting the environment rests on their young shoulders. Hence, this study evolved. The objectives were: To know the existing knowledge of the adolescents about environment, its pollution and conservation; To compare the knowledge among the male and female high school children of the five schools and also between the high school children of the five schools. Two hypotheses were formulated stating that there is no difference in the knowledge about the eco-friendly environment concept between boys and girls and that there is no difference between the students of the five schools about the eco-friendly environment. The five schools taken for the study were Mangalavada, Mugadalabetta, CK Pura, Gujjanadu and KT Halli, which were randomly selected in Pavgada Taluk, Tumkur District, Karnataka. Adolescent boys and girls studying in 9th standard, numbering 20 from each school, totaling to 100 were selected using the Purposive Random Sampling technique. Questionnaire was used as tool, developed both in English and Kannada, which consisted of basic information about the respondents followed by five sections in which a total of 114 objective type questions were framed and distributed.

Very interesting results can be observed from the study undertaken for 9th standard students from the five rural schools in Pavagada Taluk.

With regard to a comparison among male and female students towards knowledge in maintaining an eco-friendly environment, except for the dimension eco-system and environment, the other dimensions Air, Water, Land and Resource and Energy conservation showed high significant difference in Mean scores among male and female children and also that male students had more knowledge about maintaining Eco-Friendly Environment compared to the females in all the dimensions.

The ANOVA, comparing children of schools located in the 5 villages showed high significant difference in Mean scores in all the 5 dimensions, revealing that children of K. T. Halli village had better knowledge towards maintaining Eco-Friendly Environment followed by students belonging to Mangalawada and Mugadalabetta villages in all the dimensions.

Observing the above study, a lot of improvement can be made regarding knowledge about eco-friendly environment making the children not only aware about their environment but also inculcate positive attitudes and practices among them.

Key words: adolescents and knowledge of environment, eco-friendly concept of environment

Introduction

Man is considered as an integral part of nature and there should be harmony & not hostility between man and environment. Man started interfering with the environment since the human civilization evolved. With the increased human tendency of exploitation of natural resources for economic development, the environment is facing serious threats to its conservation. Our vital and fragile environment is today increasingly threatened by commercial exploitation, growing population demands and industrial pollution. Our mother earth’s rivers, oceans, forests, plains, grass lands and wet lands are fighting for survival.

Great efforts are necessary to protect the natural environment. Environment protection is the need of the hour today. Dr. Einstein said: “All our technological progress, our very civilization is like the ace in the hands of pathological criminals, who have mercilessly destroyed the forest and converted fertile land into desert” (Shankar Rao, 2004).

There should be a final step for this creeping paralysis. Hence, we must think in terms of protecting our Environment, which protects us in return, one of the important means to create awareness about environment being environment education.

This is only the beginning part of the article. PLEASE CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE IN PRINTER-FRIENDLY VERSION.

Bhavya. N., Ph.D. Scholar
Department of Extension Education and Communication
Smt.V.H.D Central Institute of Home Science
Bangalore University
Sheshadri Road
Bangalore-560001
Karnataka
India
bhavyakt85@gmail.com

Dr. K. Purnima
Associate Professor
Research Centre
Department of Extension Education and Communication
Smt. V. H. D Central Institute of Home Science
Bangalore University
Sheshadri Road
Bangalore-560001
Karnataka
India
drkpurnima@gmail.com

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