ENVIRONMENTAL CITIZENSHIP: LEVEL OF KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND BEHAVIOUR OF PROSPECTIVE TEACHERS

Now a day’s people’s responsibility to protect and preserve environment and this is a responsibility of all citizens including the government, private sector and semi sector industries. The main concept of environmental citizenship is the relationship of people and nature to conserve environmental activities to everyone responsibilities at all time. Because diminishing of environmental impact on earth and human lives. This study is intended around the concept of environmental citizenship that settles the prospective teacher’s knowledge, attitude and behaviour towards environmental citizenship.

Today various natural disasters are threatening the human life and even the most developed countries cannot remain assured of the safety of their citizens. Due to insensitive and irrational utilization of natural resources, different types of pollution effects like ozone depletion, acid rain, deforestation, global warming are threatening to decimate the extremely survival of man. The losses of forest, loss of fertility, hammering of soil yield and energy crises have created many problems. Solving of these problems needs important changes at the social as well personal level of knowledge and change their behaviour which is must to strive school education and help students which is why education in school must strive to help students become better at making decisions about their own lives and influencing their surrounding environment. We must invest in environmental citizenship with a sense of human community, which involves a commitment to a more universal nature?

Keywords: Environment, Environmental Citizenship, Knowledge, Attitude and Behaviour.

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