An investigation of environmental education awareness among secondary school science teachers and students: implication for sustainable environment development in Niger State

Abstract

This paper analyzed the level of awareness of environmental education among science teachers and science students in some selected secondary schools in Minna metropolis, Niger State. The design adopted fir the purpose off data collection was a simple survey method. Two instruments namely Teachers Questionnaire (TQ) and Student Questionnaire (SQ) were design and validate for data collection. Two hundred and fifty (250) respondents made up one hundred (100) teachers and one hundred and fifty (150) students from five (5) selected schools were randomly selected for the study. The sampling technique adopted was the direct delivery technique or on the spot method. The data obtained were analyzed using statistical package for social science (SPSS) and Frequency distribution (fr), Mean(Ẋ), percentage (%) scores statistics. An alpha level of 0.05 of significant at 1 degree of freedom was set for data analysis. The finding indicates that teachers are more aware of the environmental education than the students. However, the finding shows that the much difference on awareness lies between the science teachers and science student with regards to sex. Therefore, sex has no effect on awareness of environmental education. The finding obtained from the study also showed that there is the need for environmental education curriculum in the primary, secondary and tertiary institutions.