“A Study On The Environmental Awareness Of Secondary Grade Students”

Abstract

Today man is living in a world of crises. The social, economic, politicaland value crises are some of the threats which the humanity faces and these threats are quite alarming. Added to this, in the recent decades, the environmental crises become another important factor which has made everyone in the world think of its gravity. Though the environmental dimension has its own history, it has gained prominence in the recent past due to several reasons such as urbanization, industrialization, automation and population explosion, along with pollution, acid rains, gas leaks, nuclear disasters which have made man a helpless victim. The present study observed that There is no significant difference between boys ang girls with regard environmental awareness. Majority of the secondary school students have good level of environmental awareness. Private school students had better environmental awareness than the students of Government school’s and 9th class students have more environmental awareness level than 8th class student.