Environmental Consciousness Level of Middle School Students of Tekanpur area in Central India

摘要

Environmental awareness holds importance for several reasons; it nurtures a sense of connection to the natural world, encourages sustainable development, helps conservation of irreplaceable natural resources, vulnerable plant and animal species.Present study aims to assess awareness of environmental issues and attitude towards environment protection among middle school students.The study was carried out in Tekanpur, a town located in central India, by conducting survey on students of 13 middle schools.Total 300 students were participated in study.Self administered questionnaire was distributed to assess the level of awareness and attitude among participants.The results of study not only showed fairly good level of environmental awareness (34% medium level and 61% high level of awareness) among participating students but also very optimistic attitude towards protection of environment (43% medium and 50% higher category of awareness).There was no difference between gender for environmental awareness and their attitude towards environment protection as well.There is positive relationship was found (r=0.333) between environmental awareness and attitude towards environment protection among the students participated in the study.