A Study on Attitude of Higher Secondary School Students towards Education for Sustainable Development

Education may be considered as ‘Human Ecology’ which deals with man and his environment. Our dependence on nature is so great that we cannot continue to live without protecting the earth’s resources. Now a day people understood the fact that the current development in the field of economic situation is not sustainable and so awareness, education and training are the keys to move towards sustainability. The growing awareness of the challenges in the traditional development thinking has led to the wide acceptance of the concept- that of sustainable development. Development which protects the environment, development which advances social justice phrases such as these have surrounded the introduction of what has been claimed to be a new paradigm- sustainable development. The present study is intended to examine the attitude of higher secondary school students towards education for sustainable development with respect to their locality and stream of study. Survey method was used for the study. The researcher used Stratified Random Sampling technique to select a sample of 150 higher secondary school students from Thiruvananthapuram district of Kerala. The data were collected using an attitude scale developed and standardized by the investigator. The data were analysed using different statistical techniques like mean, standard deviation and t-test. The findings of the study revealed that higher secondary school students have positive attitude towards education for sustainable development. Further the study showed that higher secondary school students from different locality and stream showed of study significant difference in their attitude towards education for sustainable development.