Effect of Environmental Education for Sustainable Development on the development of Environmental Awareness among Secondary School Students

The aim of the present study was to examine the effect of Environmental Education for Sustainable Development on the development of Environmental Awareness among Secondary School Students. Keeping in view the purpose of the study, experimental method was used by the investigator. The study was conducted on a sample of 120 students studying in class IX of MDAV senior secondary school, Ambala. For the purpose of the study an intervention programme based on environmental education for sustainable development developed by the investigators and two parallel form of achievement test on environmental awareness developed by the investigators were used. t-test was used to compare pre-tests and post-tests of control and experimental groups. The results of the study revealed that before giving intervention programme both the groups were equivalent. There was a significant difference between environmental awareness of experimental group and control group after intervention programme and significant difference was also found between the environmental awareness of experimental group before and after intervention programme. It shows that the intervention programme was effective in developing the environmental awareness among secondary school students.