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Research Paper |
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Children's Attitudinal Dimensions of Living Things: Some Implications for Environmental Education |
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India |
Authors |
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T. Geetha |
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10.9790/7388-04225766  |
Abstract: The Environmental Education may be considered to be an approach to education which incorporates considerations of environment rather than being a separate part of education .In other words environmental approach aims to evolve an environmental ethics i.e. a balanced way of thinking, feeling and acting towards the environment. A well articulated international initiative emerged in Tibilisi Conference,1977 put forth a set of objectives of EE to take care of awareness, knowledge, attitude, skills and participation. This study explored the children's attitude towards living things in their immediate environment or those concerned them. With appropriate theoretical and empirical analysis, it is concluded that the egalitarian view of the children where all creatures were equal and have similar rights in the world was strong. Many children were found demonstrating humanistic, moralistic, naturalistic and aesthetic attitudes towards living things.
Key words: environment education, attitude development, attitude scale, egalitarian and humanistic views.
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