Scholarly Research Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies, Online ISSN 2278-8808, SJIF 2016 = 6.17, www.srjis.com UGC Approved Sr. No.49366, NOV-DEC 2017, VOL- 4/37 https://doi.org/10.21922/srjis.v4i37.10672
AWARENESS AND ATTITUDE OF SCHOOL STUDENTS TOWARDS ENVIRONMENT Kuldeep Singh Katoch, Ph. D. Associate Professor, Department of Education, ICDEOL, Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla-5.
Environment and the organisms are two dynamic and complex component of nature. Environment regulates the life of the organisms including human beings. Human beings interact with the environment more vigorously than other living beings. It is the sum total of conditions in which an organism has to survive or maintain its life process. It influences the growth and development of living forms. In this paper an attempt has been made to study the awareness and attitude of school students towards environment and related issues. To study this phenomena survey method has been used. The study was conducted on 160 students (girls and 80 boys). The students were randomly selected from different schools of Shimla. For the purpose of data collection environmental attitude scale and environmental awareness tests were administered on them. The data was collected personally from the schools. To analyze the data t-ratio was calculated. The results revealed that both male and female have equal awareness towards environment and female students are having better attitude towards environment than male students. Keywords: Awareness, Environment, Global warming, flora and Fauna. Scholarly Research Journal's is licensed Based on a work at www.srjis.com
Introduction The term environment has been derived from a French word “Environ” means to surround. It refers to both abiotic (physical or non-living) and biotic (living) environment. The word environment means surroundings, in which organisms live. Environment and the organisms are two dynamic and complex component of nature. Environment regulates the life of the organisms including human beings. Human beings interact with the environment more vigorously than other living beings. Ordinarily environment refers to the materials andforces that surround the living organism. Dum (1982), described environment as everything around us air, water, land, plants, animals and microorganisms. Everything that living and non-living constitutes forms environment. Environment includes biotic and abiotic factors.Abiotic factors are the non-living factors and humidity photoperiod topography etc. the chemical factors like chemical composition of atmosphere, water and land.Biotic factorsare living factors and include species of animals and plants. The individual of some species and of different species are included in it. Environment is mainly of two types natural environment Copyright © 2017, Scholarly Research Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies