Environmental awareness among high school teachers

Pages: 505-506
Sangeeta Saini (Department of Biology, GSSS, Gangwa, Hisar)
Poonam (Tagore PG College of Education, Barwa, Bhiwani)
Satyaveer Nehra (Senior Citizan Club, Hisar)

Industrialization has provided humanity with many material and social benefits. Unfortunately, it has also brought about many material and social problems, one of which is environmental pollution that now a days poses a major threat not only to humans, but also to all life on earth. The aim of the present study is to assess the level of environmental awareness among high school teachers in Haryana to study the extent of their environmental worry; and to evaluate the relationship between their environmental awareness and worry, and how they vary with different socio-demographic variables. The finding revealed that There are no significant difference between the environmental education awareness of school teachers in relation to level.At school stage emphasis should be made mostly on building up awareness and attitude through real life situations and conservation.