Effectiveness of Multimedia Instructional Package (MMIP) on Interest in Greening Initiatives and Environmental Accountability among Secondary School Students

Authors: [1] Dr. M. S. Talawar [2] Vijay Kumar. R [3] Dr. S.Thiyagarajan

Pages: 140-145

Abstract:

Man is a product of the nature (School of Naturalism) who depends fully on the nature for his entire livelihood in which environment is very closely related to day to day life. Globalization, Urbanization and Industrialization had destroyed the nature and natural resources to a greater extent. Nowadays we don’t live in the environment which is stable but much rather becoming unrecognizable and diminishing before our eyes only because of extensive cutting down of trees, pollution, unscientific waste of disposal, population explosion and many interrelated allied problems. Addressing all these issues and crisis, investigator felt that the education alone can be the long term strategy and solution to combat such problems. Among various strategies to educate a man media could be the place a dominant role in sensitizing the mankind to greater extent. Hence, researcher decided to sensitize the secondary student’s through Multimedia Instructional Package (MMIP) by developing and validating two tools namely, Greening Initiatives inventory and Environmental Accountability Scale and started with the intervention at Jawahar Navodaya Vidhyalay( Residential Institution) at Pondicherry for about 30 days and drawn the following findings. There is a significant difference between the pre-test and the post-test scores of the experimental group and Control group on Greening Initiatives and Environmental Accountability. There is a significant difference between the Post Experimental and the post Control group on Greening Initiatives and Environmental Accountability. Exist significant Gender difference where girls possess higher than that of boys on both Greening Initiatives and Environmental Accountability. Significant difference in locality between rural and urban students. Significant difference between Joint and Nuclear family on Greening Initiatives and Environmental Accountability.