Journal of Environmental Protection

Volume 4, Issue 2 (February 2013)

ISSN Print: 2152-2197   ISSN Online: 2152-2219

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

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DOI: 10.4236/jep.2013.42024    4,457 Downloads   7,814 Views  Citations

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).

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H. Lateh and P. Muniandy, "Pre-Service Teachers Attitude towards Teaching Environmental Education (EE) during Practicum in Malaysian Primary Schools," Journal of Environmental Protection, Vol. 4 No. 2, 2013, pp. 201-204. doi: 10.4236/jep.2013.42024.

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