Promoting environmental education among rural children
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Date
2005
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CCSHAU
Abstract
The study was conducted in Haryana State, in rural area of Hisar District, list
of blocks was prepared and from this list one block was taken randomly. from the
selected block two villages i.e. Bhojraj and Dahima were taken purposely. One
school from each village was taken randomly. A sample of 60 children of primary
and middle grade from each school was taken. Thus a total sample of 120 children
was the final sample for the present study.
To find out the existing level of awareness of the respondents regarding
environmental pollution questionnaire-cum-interview schedule was prepared which
was duly pretested on 20 respondents. On the basis of responses obtained, the
interview schedule was finalized. Data were collected on the structured interview
schedule personally by investigator, thus collected data tabulated and suitably
analyzed.
It was found that most of the respondent were female and youngest in their
families and belonging to the lower caste with five to six members in their families
and their parents had labour as their main occupation and low socio-economic status.
Most of the families were having inadequate house and public facilities. The
knowledge of the parents of the respondents regarding environment at pollution was
less and they had low mass media exposure.
Most of the respondents had low level of knowledge about environmental
pollution. They were less aware about air, soil, flora and fauna and noise pollution
but their awareness was better in case of water pollution.
It was found that scholastic achievements, family type, family size, parental
education, parental occupation, parental religious belief and parental knowledge
associated significantly with the environmental awareness of the respondents.