Abstract: The human knowledge, behavior, values, attitudes and level of consciousness are the product of both heredity and environment. Again the environment is the composite of nature and its resources, natural events, socio-economic components, education, culture, location, topographical status, opportunities and so on. Among all other environmental factors the localities and topographical regions of individual were assumed to mediate the effects on Environmental Knowledge. The topographical condition in terms of climate, temperature, rain rate throughout the year, humidity, resources available and natural calamities may have more and less impact in forming personality characteristics i.e. behaviour, knowledge, values, etc. The present study has been emerged out of the above considerations. The researchers assumed the localities and gender as factors of Environmental Knowledge. For that purpose, the State, West Bengal has been divided into six topographical zones and a sample of 260 (N = 260) Secondary School Students of different parts of West Bengal has been taken. Environmental Knowledge Scale (EKS) developed by researchers has been used to measure the selected variable. Descriptive statistics along with ANOVA and t-test have been employed to analyze the data. No difference of the Environmental Knowledge was found in case of gender but the significant differences were found in case of localities. It might be concluded that the localities might mediate in Environmental Knowledge of persons.
Keywords: Environmental Knowledge, Topographical region, Secondary School Student.
Title: Environmental Knowledge of Secondary School Students: A Topographical Analysis
Author: Jagabandhu Behera, Rebati Mani Samal
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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