Environmental education seeks to make pupils fully aware of the problems connected with the environment and motivates them to tackle those problems with a sense of responsibility and with the technical skills that will enable them to contribute to the solutions for those problems. It is not just a subject of education but an expansion of its whole philosophy recognizing our environment as continuous without shelves and in need of the same care and understanding we give to our personal and social well being. It refers to the awareness of physical and cultural environment and its relevance to real life situation, the problems and issues are to be identified, and the imbalances of environment are to be improved in view of sustainable development. Understanding the very importance of the environmental awareness among secondary school students, this study has been taken up. The secondary school students are having high environmental awareness. The locality of school and medium of instruction have no bearing on environmental awareness, but gender of students and management of school have a significant influence on the environmental awareness of students. This study will be of great use to the teachers and students of secondary schools to take care of the components concerned to the environmental awareness of students.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Digumarti Bhaskara Rao
(9-6-1957), M.Sc., M.A., M.A., M.Ed., PhD., a university rank holder, has had his higher education from Andhra, Bhopal, Nagarjuna and Osmania universities. He is author and editor of about 200 books that include 5 Encyclopaedias and has published more than 300 papers and articles on science and edcucation in India and abroad. He has co-chaired a symposium in an International Conference on Psychology held at Martin Luther University, Halle- Wittenberg, Germany; acted as a group leader in International Seminar on Educational leadership and Social Change Held at Tallinn Pedagogical University, Talling,Estonia; and studied the educational Programmes in Bhutan. He is selected by the Unified Teaching Service, Government of Botswana to teach in Botswana and by the Austrian study Centre for peace and conflict Resolution, Austria for the International Peace-Keepers and Peace-Builders Training Programme with the sponsorship of Government of Austria. He is honoured with Seva Ratna Award, Vidya Seva Vibhushan Award, Bharat Gaurav Award, Jewel of India Award and Best Citizen of India Award for his meritorious and commendable contributions to the field of education. The Government of Andhra pradesh appointed him as Associate Member, Distric Co-ordination Committee on Vocational Guidance and Educational Counselling. He is appointed as a Member, Board of Management, Jan Shikshan Sansthan, under eminent Person in education category by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India. He is with R.V.R. College of Education, Guntur, A.P., India.
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