AWARENESS AND ATTITUDE OF CHEMISTRY TEACHERS TOWARDS IMPLEMENTATION OF GREEN CHEMISTRY AMONG SECONDARY TEACHERS IN MINNA METROPOLIS

Abstract

Green chemistry focuses on the molecular level to design chemicals and materials to be inherently non-hazardous. The challenge of promoting greater adoption of green chemistry innovations is education is substantial because green chemistry is an emerging disruptive technology embedded in a complex scientific, political, regulatory, economic, industrial and cultural framework. In implementing an effective teaching, teachers should also integrate various teaching strategies which are suitable to the interest, talent and cognitive level of the students. The main purpose of this study was centered on the awareness and attitude of chemistry teachers towards implementation of green chemistry among secondary school teachers in Minna metropolis. A survey research design was adopted for the study. All the 22 public senior secondary school chemistry teachers formed the population a purposeful random simple technique was used to sample of fifty(50) teachers from the school. Four research questions and two research hypotheses tested at 0.05 level of significance guided the study. A structured questionnaire was used for data collection. The reliability coefficient of the instrument was 0.92 using correlational analysis while two experts carried out face and content validations. Means and standard deviation were employed to answer the research questions, while t-test was used to test the hypotheses. It was found out that the teachers have poor awareness of green chemistry and do not carry out green chemistry practices. The data also revealed that the teachers are positive attitude towards green chemistry and that gender has no effect on the awareness and attiude of teachers towards green chemistry. It was recommended that more benign topics (Green Chemistry topics) in senior school chemistry curriculum should be encouraged and that teachers should be retrained on how to use less toxic chemistry and how to effectively carry out green chemistry practices.