Perspective Teachers' responsibility towards environment

In today's world we are all concerned about the environment. It's a very important to look how we can reduce our impact on our planet. Local communities depend on ecosystems for their livelihood and therefore the people must be given the responsibility to take care of them and apply conservation methods to protect them. Teacher can play pivotal role in this direction. Prospective teachers are the future teachers of the nation. So, they should have the knowledge, understanding and action to protect the environment. Prospective teachers' responsibility plays an important part in preserving environmental values among students.

Keeping in view the discussion made in the preceding paragraph, the researcher made an attempt to study the environmental responsibility among prospective teachers. The study was conducted in Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh. The sample of the study comprises 100 prospective teachers of Prakasam District. For the selection of sample multistage stratified random sampling technique was adopted. The data were analyzed by using mean. S.D., ‘t' test techniques.