Evaluating environmental awareness in context to environmental cognition: A study of Primary Schools in Central Himalayan Region of India Sharma Akhand1, Singh Shyam Sunder2 1Research Scholar, Department of Education, Doctor Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya (A Central University), Sagar (M.P.) 2Senior Research Fellow, Department of Education, Doctor Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya (A Central University), Sagar (M.P.) Online published on 7 October, 2019. Abstract The key role of environmental education is to create awareness and sensitise the students towards environmental concerns. It is important that being a teacher we should develop environmental values and ethics among students through scholastic and co-scholastic activities in order to make environmental education more joyful and goal oriented. The aim of the proposed study was to evaluate the environmental awareness in context to environmental cognition among students studying in grade fourth and fifth in Government Primary School (GPS) of Bhimtal Block, Nainital, Uttarakhand. An Environment Awareness Test (EAT) was administered on 122 students; (Grade 4th-73 and 5th-49 in orders to evaluate environmental cognition. Independent Sample T Test and Path Analysis were used to analyse the data. The findings of the study reveal the facts related to environmental awareness and its relationship with environmental cognition. The study suggests that by practising practical and theoretical approaches in teaching environmental studies, we can develop the sense of caring and consciousness in children towards their local surroundings. The study is highly original; innovative especially it is an effort to evaluate environmental awareness through environmental cognition. Top Keywords Environment Education, Awareness, Cognition, Central Himalayas. Top |