The environmental awareness of elementary school learners in east kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh
International Journal of Development Research
The environmental awareness of elementary school learners in east kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh
Received 09th July, 2017; Received in revised form 24th August, 2017; Accepted 27th September, 2017; Published online 10th October, 2017
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The present study was designed to investigate the Environmental Awareness of Elementary School learners in East Kameng District of Arunachal Pradesh. The sample of the study consisted of 200 elementary school going learners from 8th standards in East Kameng district were randomly selected for the present study. The environmental awareness test was employed used to assess the level of environmental awareness (EAW) among the learners. The investigator intended to measures the level of awareness of learners towards environmental education for which the investigator used the statistical techniques such as Mean, SD and t-test to find out the significance of difference exist among the learners with respect to gender, tribes, settlement and levels of schools. From the whole study the result reveals that elementary school level learners and secondary school level learners had same awareness and moderate levels of environmental awareness towards environmental education. Male and Female learners also showed significantly the same level of awareness towards environmental education. In case of urban and rural learners also possess moderate levels of awareness towards environmental education and both the groups of learners having same levels of awareness. Lastly, the investigator found out that tribal and non-tribal learners had significantly moderate and same levels of awareness towards environmental education.