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| Volume-II,
Issue-IV, October-December 2013 |
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Scapes (An International Multi Disciplinary Journal) |
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Scientific Attitude as an
Indicator of Environmental Practices Dr. Suhane
A. Asst. Professor, School of Education IGNOU,
New Delhi-68 Email anjulisuhane@ignou.ac.in CLICK
HERE TO ABSTRACT
Though
there are remarkable developments taken place
due to scientific and technological inventions,
environmental issues crept in due to these developments.
Science education plays an important role in
developing scientific temper, reflective thinking,
inquiry skills, scientific attitude etc. among
school children besides imparting scientific
knowledge. This paper attempts to explore how
far scientific attitude a latent objective of
science education, would help in development
of environmentally sensitive practices. Scientific
attitude scale and Environmental Practices Scale
are administered to 480 secondary school children.
It is found that scientific attitude acts as
a predictor of environmental practices in general.
Among components of scientific attitude, curiosity
is found to be a predictor of environmental
friendly practices. Specifically influence of
scientific attitude is evident in practices
pertaining to conservation of nature, control
of noise pollution and limiting use of poly
products.
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