IMPACT OF ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS ON ATTITUDE OF SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS — A STUDY

Abstract

In this era of depleting resources and deteriorating standards of life due to ever increasing problems of pollution, poverty and illiteracy. Various problems related to the earth like global warming, ozone layer depletion is now a household term. There is an immediate need of environmental awareness. Unfortunately, there is a considerable lack of awareness with interrelated nature of all human activities and the environment. It is lack of awareness, low sense of civic responsibility, and growing tendency of indifference and negligence, which is by some or the other way refraining to think consciously well in advance. There is a need to increase public sensitivity towards environmental problems and involvement in their solution and foster a sense of public responsibility, greater motivation and commitment towards the environment. The famous international conference on environmental education organized by UNESCO and UNEP held in 1971 has provided incentive to numerous researches works in field of research in environmental education.