Measuring Attitude towards Sustainable Development among Trainee Teachers in Purulia District of West Bengal

Priti Haldar¹, Smritikana Roy², Sourav Chandra Gorain², Anasuya Adhikari² and Birbal Saha^2,

¹Kalna Surendranath B.Ed. College, West Bengal, India

²Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University, Purulia, West Bengal, India

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Priti Haldar, Smritikana Roy, Sourav Chandra Gorain, Anasuya Adhikari and Birbal Saha. Measuring Attitude towards Sustainable Development among Trainee Teachers in Purulia District of West Bengal. American Journal of Educational Research. 2022; 10(12):682-696. doi: 10.12691/education-10-12-5

Abstract

A constructive attitude towards Sustainable Development can be contemplated as the pre-requisite towards fulfilling the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and fabricating a well-balanced sustainable planet for us and our upcoming generations. Sustainable Development is the development that immune our various resources as well as our society, economy and environment in a suited manner. The present study was taken up to examine the attitude of trainee teachers in Purulia District of West Bengal towards Sustainable Development. Total 100 trainee teachers of Purulia district were taken as the sample through stratified random sampling for conducting the present study. A self-made Attitude scale on Sustainable Development was used to gather necessary data from the sample. The collected data were analysed by proper statistical techniques using SPSS. The basic results indicated that there were no significant differences on the attitude of male and female trainee teachers, rural and urban trainee teachers, and trainee teachers of arts and science stream respectively towards Sustainable Development. No differences were found between the attitude of rural male and urban male trainee teachers, rural female and urban female trainee teachers, rural male and rural female trainee teachers, male and female trainee teachers of Arts stream and male and female trainee teachers of Science stream. Hence, a significant difference was found between the attitude of urban male and urban female trainee teachers in this regard.

Keywords:
sustainable development attitude trainee teachers

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