Knowledge and practices among B. Ed. students on population issues: A study

The growth of population has become one of the most fundamental and challenging problems of humanity today all over the world. As a result, most countries in the world are confronted with among other things, grave deficiency of food and serious inadequacy in facilities for education and health. Population explosion is a challenge to socio-economic development. Owing to rapid population growth, poverty, unemployment, improper housing, malnutrition, under-nutrition, pollution, wars, juvenile delinquency, water scarcity, illiteracy, political instability, terrorism, robberies, prostitution, drug addiction, alcoholism, human trafficking etc., have been on the increase day by day all the world over. Therefore, several national and international agencies are making serious efforts to control in discriminant population growth. Among the several ways devised to control it population education is considered to be an effective means. The future course of population growth in our country will depend considerably on how successfully we achieve our goal of universal education and to what extent the different educational and motivational components of population education programmes in schools and colleges can bring about a favourable response to the small family size norm. The present study has covered of 700 samples to the B. Ed. students (Hindi medium) in the four southern states of India viz., Andhra, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu. The study includes only the regular students studying in the selected B. Ed. colleges. The present study reveals that there is significance difference betweenknowledgeattitudesand practices among B. Ed. Students on population issues. It can be concluded that knowledge will helps to control the population in society through various dimensions in India.