Pre-Service Teachers Attitude towards Teaching Environmental Education (EE) during Practicum in Malaysian Primary Schools

Habibah Lateh, Punitha Muniandy

School of Distance Eductaion, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia.

DOI: 10.4236/jep.2013.42024                

Abstract

Environmental Education (EE) has been introduced into the Malaysian Curriculum since 1992. Related to that, EE was found to be an important subject that must be known by the teachers, prior to teach EE indirectly in the classroom. Problems occurred while implementing EE in schools such as; less knowledge about EE an extra burden among teachers to teach. At Teachers Training Institute (TTI), EE is a compulsory subject due to complete their training and this study carried out to identify the attitude of teaching EE among pre-service teachers’. The reliability of the items showed 0.830 cronbach’s alpha. One hundred and twenty five respondents among pre-service teachers’ were analyzed and the result shows pre-service teachers’ have positive attitude towards teaching EE in classroom. Analysis of data shown that there are significant differences between male and female pre-service teachers’ in attitude of teaching, with t = 0.036 (p < 0.05).

Keywords

urriculum; Education; Environmental Education; National Policy; Pre-Service Teacher; Teacher Training Institute; Practicum

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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