A Study on Environmental Attitude Among Secondary School Students of Mysore District

Abstract

Environmental education acts as a necessary tool in the battle against the degradation of living environment. Environmental education has a goal. It tries to fulfil the goal of creating a population which has got a clear sense and knowledge of environment and its issues. Basically, the student’s environmental attitude is essential for environmental conservation. So, the researcher adopts the survey method by using standardised tool, Environmental Attitude Scale, (TEAS) developed by Dr. Haseen Taj in 2001, for data gathering. It contains 31 favourable and 30 unfavourable items and total sample consist of 80 secondary school students. The analysis of data revealed that there is no significant difference between Boys and Girls of secondary school students towards Environmental attitude, as well as locality. Whereas no significant difference between Urban and Rural secondary school students with respect to Environmental attitude.