A Study of Environmental Awareness and Teaching Competency among Secondary School Teachers | Original Article

ABSTRACT:

Environmental Awareness seeks to develop the ability to assess environmental situations and the causal chains of relationships leading to environmental damage; the interaction among social, economical, physical and educational factors: mutually related and overlapping developments, networks and feedback responsibility for future generation’ economy and care in the use of all recourses; respect to revolution, nature and life; recognition of the limits of nature, human action and self restriction; and re-acquiring the ability to perceive nature. Teaching competency of secondary school teachers can be a true weapon to bring environmental awareness to the students. Objectives are to find out the level of environmental awareness among male and female secondary school teachers, to find out the level of environmental awareness in secondary teachers of arts and science branch, to find out the level of teaching competency of male and female secondary teachers, to find out the level of teaching competency of arts and science secondary school teachers, to find out the relationship between environmental awareness and teaching competency of secondary school teachers. Sample for the present study consists of 300 secondary school teachers from different schools of Lohardaga and Gumla Dist. State, Jharkhand. Environmental Awareness Scale, by Parveen Kumar Jha, and Teaching Competency Scale, by Thomas Vargese. Mean, SD, t-test and Pearson Product moment correlation was used to analyze the data. Findings of the study revealed that there is no significant difference in the level of Environmental Awareness of male and female secondary school teachers, there is no significant difference in the level of environmental awareness of arts and science secondary school teachers, there is no significant difference in the level of teaching competency of male and female secondary school teachers, there is no significant difference in the level of teaching competency of arts and science secondary school teachers, there is no significant relationship between environmental awareness and teaching competency of secondary school teachers.