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Volume : II, Issue : XI, December - 2012 ASTUDYON RELATION BETWEEN ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ACHIEVEMENTLEVEL AND THEIR SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS OF SECONDARY CHILDREN GOUTAM CHAKRABORTY AND JAYANTAMETA Published By : Laxmi Book Publication Abstract : Environment is a global concept today . Environmental Education is an
approach to learning. Environmental Education means the educational process dealing
with man's relationship of population, pollution resource, conservation, technology ,
energy , urban and rural planning to the total biosphere.
Aself-made questionnaire was made in order to find ther elationship between
the Environmental Education aptitude and socioeconomic status among class IX
Children of rural, urban and semi urban. The question paper contents fifty (50) questions
and it divided into two sector . In sector-I content (10) questions by which the
socioeconomic status of the children can be known and Sector-II consists of four type
questions by which Environmental Education aptitude can be understood.
Socioeconomic status is evaluated fr om the response of sector-I questions by analyzing
the educational status of the family , occupation of the parents & the monthly income of
the family of a particular student or sample. After classifying the samples into 3 classes
of status (upper , middle & lower) according to their socioeconomic condition, the mean
of the marks was computed. The mean score of every status group is then analyzed to
know the relationship between Environmental Education achievement level and
socioeconomic status. Although ther e are many factor are responsible for the academic
achievements in Environmental Education. But fr om this observation it may conclude
that ther e is a strong relationship between Environmental Education achievement and
socio-economic status Keywords : Article : Cite This Article : GOUTAM CHAKRABORTY AND JAYANTAMETA, (2012). ASTUDYON RELATION BETWEEN ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ACHIEVEMENTLEVEL AND THEIR SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS OF SECONDARY CHILDREN. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. II, Issue. XI, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/1820.pdf References : - Coleman, J.S. (1996). Equality of educational opportunity
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