A Cross Sectional Study on Environmental Conservation Awareness among B.Ed Student Teachers

Abstract

In today’s era of globalization, we are faced with a lot of societal upheavals including dilemmas pertaining to the environment. Rogayan (2019) reiterated that the earth is now suffering from innumerable afflictions at present caused by egregious human activities that relentlessly denuding the environment. The challenge for everybody is to take the wheel of action and move towards a common cause in preserving life on earth. The growing concern with environmental issues and their impact on general awareness is one of the most noticeable phenomena of the last two decades (Sivamoorthy, Nalini & Satheesh Kumar, 2013). The rapid depletion of the earth’s natural resources and the fast degrading environment are the realities which can no longer be denied. These are the grave scenarios that threaten the existence of both man and the earth (Marpa & Juele, 2016). The Education for Sustainable Development of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) reiterates that education is an indispensable tool towards sustainable development. Environmental education is a process aimed at developing a world population that is aware of and concerned about the total environment and its associated problems and which has the knowledge, attitudes, commitments and skills to work individually and collectively towards the solution of current problems and prevention of new ones (Puri & Joshi, 2017).