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- Title: Assessing the Environmental Attitude Among Pupil Teachers in Relation to Responsible Environmental Behavior: A Leap Towards Sustainable Development (Report)
- Author : Journal of Social Sciences
- Release Date : January 01, 2011
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 249 KB
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INTRODUCTION The relevance of including 'sustainable development' in B. Ed syllabus of teacher training institutes is that the National policy on education-1986 (India) and NCFSE (2000) highlight the need for including Environmental concerns at all the levels of schoolings. The Honorable Supreme Court of India has endorsed a model syllabus (2004) prepared by the NCERT for introducing environmental studies as a compulsory subject school. With all effort from agencies responsible for determining quality education, school teachers have the major duty to instill values and attitude among students through the subjects they are teaching in school so that students could behave sensibly towards the environment and contribute towards sustainable development. For this noble task, it is necessary that teacher training programme should be designed to equip trainee teachers for how to inculcate attitude through different subjects and this requires that pupil teachers should have positive attitude towards environment to manifest responsible environmental behavior. Hence, it is pertinent to assess the attitude of the students of teacher training programme and the relation with Environmental Responsible Behavior. Data is collected from 300 pupil teachers using instruments measuring Environmental attitude; scientific attitude and Responsible Environmental Behavior. Although, Responsible Environmental Behavior is not significantly related with Environmental attitude, however, it is significantly related with scientific attitude. Differences due to Teaching experiences and courses of study are significant on Environmental attitude. The teacher training programme also provides opportunities to be teacher educator offering Master of Education (i.e., M. Ed) and to pursue further research. Hence, the present study may open an avenue for research in 'eco-psychology' and curriculum reform for teacher training programme encouraging innovative pedagogical approach to be practiced in school.