EVALUATING THE EFFECT OF DIVERSE INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES ON ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS AMONG STUDENTS WITH SPECIAL LEARNING NEEDS.

Abstract

The environment constitutes the life-support system for humanity, delivering oxygenated air, potable water, nutrient cycles, and the regulating services that underpin health and economic vitality. Anthropogenic pressures—deforestation, greenhouse-gas emissions, synthetic pollutants—have driven the Earth system beyond several safe operating spaces, thereby jeopardising the stability of socio-ecological networks (IPCC, 2023). The Sixth Assessment Synthesis Report warns that global mean temperature has already risen 1.1 °C above pre-industrial levels, and that a 1.5 °C overshoot could materialise during the 2030s without “deep, rapid, and sustained” mitigation and adaptation (IPCC, 2023). Concomitant intensification of heatwaves, altered monsoon dynamics, and escalating particulate matter loads render environmental vigilance an existential necessity rather than an ethical luxury.