AWARENESS, ATTITUDE AND PARTICIPATION OF GRADE 10 LEARNERS TOWARD ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS: BASIS FOR AN ACTION PLAN
PRINCE CLIFFORD L. BUDOMO
awareness, environmental concerns, attitude
This study focused on the awareness, attitude, and participation of Grade 10 learners toward environmental concerns in Schools Division Office I Pangasinan as basis for an action plan during the School Year 2023-2024. It made use of descriptive method with questionnaire as the research instrument. There were 90 Grade 10 learners randomly selected as respondents of the study. The data gathered were properly recorded, tallied, tabulated and interpreted using the SPSS for windows. The study found out that generally, Grade 10 learners have satisfactory performance in Science, parents are high school undergraduate, self-employed, with minimum family monthly income, have mass media like television, radio, and cellular phone at home, and participated in different environmental activities. The Grade 10 learners are moderately aware towards environmental concerns along terrestrial ecosystem, aquatic ecosystem, and atmospheric ecosystems. They also show positive attitude towards environmental concerns along terrestrial ecosystem, aquatic ecosystem, and atmospheric ecosystems. The respondents also moderately participate in environmental concerns along terrestrial ecosystem, aquatic ecosystem, and atmospheric ecosystems. The researcher recommended that environmental education should be intensified in the K to 12 curriculum and should be integrated in all subjects areas especially in Science to promote their higher awareness, develop a highly positive attitude and encouraged high level of participation of students towards environmental concerns especially along terrestrial, aquatic and aerial. Considering the result of the study, the educational system with its present curriculum, should provide students with varied interesting school activities that are suited to them to attain a higher level of awareness, develop a highly positive attitude towards environmental concerns, and enhance their level of participation especially along terrestrial, aquatic and aerial ecosystem. The school should provide access over facilities and information relating to environmental concerns to achieve a higher level of awareness, highly positive attitude, and high level of participation of students towards environmental concerns. The school and the community led by the school officials and community leaders should engage in pro-environmental activities such as environmental campaigns, fun run, beautification program, Earth Day celebration and others to encourage students to ensure high participation level especially along terrestrial, aquatic, and atmospheric ecosystem.
"AWARENESS, ATTITUDE AND PARTICIPATION OF GRADE 10 LEARNERS TOWARD ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS: BASIS FOR AN ACTION PLAN", IJNRD - INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NOVEL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT (www.IJNRD.org), ISSN:2456-4184, Vol.9, Issue 10, page no.d110-d119, October-2024, Available :https://ijnrd.org/papers/IJNRD2410315.pdf
Volume 9
Issue 10,
October-2024
Pages : d110-d119
Paper Reg. ID: IJNRD_301613
Published Paper Id: IJNRD2410315
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Country: LINGAYEN, PANGASINAN, Philippines
ISSN: 2456-4184 | IMPACT FACTOR: 8.76 Calculated By Google Scholar | ESTD YEAR: 2016
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