Environment Awareness of Primary School Teachers in Relation to Their Gender and Location
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The present study was undertaken to study the environmental awareness among the primary school teachers in district Mandi of Himachal Pradesh in relation to their Gender and locale. In order to achieve the objectives of the present investigation a sample of 80 Primary school teachers was randomly selected from district Mandi, Himachal Pradesh. The questionnaire was developed by Dr. Y K Sharma and Suman Kumari was used for the present study. It included 7 components of environmental awareness response to these items in the form of yes and no. A right response was assigned a score of one and wrong response the score of zero. The obtained data was analyzed by statistical methods of using mean, SD and t -test. The finding of the study reported that male teachers are more aware towards environment awareness as compared to female counterparts.
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