Role of SEED Project in Propagating Environmental Awareness for Environment Conservation: A Study on Secondary School Students of Kerala, India

The present investigation was undertaken to study the Environmental Awareness of secondary school students who had gone through SEED Project. The sample of the study comprised 193 boys, 207 girls, 196 rural, 204 urban, 204 aided and 196 government (total- 400) secondary school students. For the selection of sample, stratified random sampling technique was employed. The data were analysed by using Mean, Standard Deviation and't' test techniques. The result of the study reveals that boys secondary school students have attained more Environmental Awareness than girls secondary school students, rural secondary school students have attained more Environmental Awareness than urban secondary school students and aided secondary school students have attained more Environmental Awareness than government secondary school students. Secondary school students possess above average level of Environmental Awareness with respect to the awareness on Environmental components used in the Environmental Awareness Scale. Environmental Awareness is not fully depends upon Environmental Education but programmes like SEED constitute a very effective role in creating Environmental Awareness.