Abstract: The purpose of the study is to determine the level of students’ environmental awareness and attitude and propose an environmental education program to improve the awareness and attitude of students in Matungao District, Division of Lanao del Norte. The study used descriptive-correlational research design to test the relationship of environmental awareness and attitude of students. There were 200 students participated in the study randomly chosen from among the nine (9) elementary schools of Matungao District. A 49-item Likert-type questionnaire containing three dimensions was adapted by Napere (2009), Thompson and Hoffman (2002) to measure level of students’ environmental awareness and attitude. Frequency counts, percentage, weighted mean and standard deviation were used to analyze the profile of the respondents and Pearson Correlation was employed to determine the relationship of the variables. To determine the differences of students’ awareness and attitudes, ANOVA test was also performed. Consequently, environmental awareness and environmental attitudes of the students were significantly related. On the other hand, there is no significant difference in their environmental awareness when grouped according to age and sex likewise on their environmental attitude when grouped to age, sex and family income. However, in the educational attainment of parents there was a significant difference in the attitudes of the students. Parents’ education is a significant factor of shaping children’s environmental attitudes. These results provide valuable information in understanding environmental awareness and attitude of students such that recommendations to education sector and other stakeholders in the locality to improve the elementary science pedagogical aspects and propose environmental education program which highlight the importance of the outcome-based education focusing on the environment.
Keywords: environmental awareness, environmental attitude, environmental education.
Title: ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS AND ATTITUDE OF GRADE VI STUDENTS: BASIS FOR AN ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION PROGRAM IN DIVISION OF LANAO DEL NORTE
Author: APIPA MALAWI RENANDANG, SOL J. DALONOS
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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