An Investigation of the Differences in Science Students' Environmental Attitude for Sustainable Development of Environmental Education in the Third World.

Abstract

The paper investigated the differences in environmental attitude of science students as a result of their different age groups, class levels and major field of study. A survey approach was used to gather data from 620 science students from 51 secondary schools in Niger State. Nigeria. The instrument used was adapted from the attitude Scale developed in Nigeria by Ato and Wilkinson (1979). It was revalidated and a reliability coefficient of 0.83 was determined through split-half method. Three hypotheses were tested using two-way analysis of variance statistic and all of them were found to have significant differences. Therefore, it was recommended that a separate Environmental Education Subject Curriculum should be develop and studied as science subject instead of the continuation of the infusion approach. This is hoped will ensure the sustainability of EE in schools in Nigeria and the third world for the purpose of environmental sustainability.