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Environmental Ethics and Environmental Risk Perception of Prospective Teachers
Brudnell Sam, S.
ABSTRACT
The present study aims to examine the environmental ethics and environmental risk perception
of prospective teachers. Survey method was used, and 1083 prospective teachers (466 Male and
617 Female) were selected from various Colleges of Education in Chennai district using simple
random sampling.
Data were gathered using the Environmental Awareness Ability Measure (EAAM) developed by
Dr. Praveen Kumar Jha (2005), and the Environmental Risk Perception Scale (2017) constructed
and validated by the investigator. Mean, Standard Deviation, t-test, One-way ANOVA and Correlation
were applied using SPSS (Version 20.0).
Findings reveal a significant positive correlation between environmental ethics and
environmental risk perception among prospective teachers.
Keywords: Environmental ethics, environmental risk perception, prospective teachers,
sustainable education, environmental awareness
This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons
Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted
use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
How to cite this article: Brudnell Sam, S. (2018).
Environmental Ethics and Environmental Risk Perception of Prospective Teachers.
Indian Educational Researcher, 11(2), 33–42.
Received: October 18, 2018;
Revision Received: November 24, 2018;
Accepted: December 15, 2018.
Responding Author: Brudnell Sam, S. @ drbrudnell@gmail.com
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