EFFECTIVENESS OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES IN DEVELOPING THE ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS

Aim: The present study investigated the effectiveness of Information and Communication Technologies in developing the environmental ethics among secondary school students. Methodology: Keeping in view the main purpose of the study experimental method was used by the investigator. The study was conducted on a sample of 80 students studying in class IX of MDAV Senior Secondary School, Ambala. For the study, pre-test post-test control group design was used. For the purpose of the study an intervention programme based on environmental education developed by the investigators and scale measuring environmental ethics developed and standardized by Haseen Taj were used. t-test was used to compare pre-tests and post-tests of control and experimental groups. Findings: The results of the study revealed that before giving intervention programme both the groups were equivalent. There was a significant difference between environmental ethics of students of experimental and control group after intervention programme and significant difference was also found between the experimental group before and after intervention programme. Relevance: For formal education to contribute to sustainability, traditional systems and methodologies need to be reoriented. Research shows the traditional education system has not succeeded in influencing choices and behaviours that would support sustainable development. ICTs, at their most basic level, enable the presentation of course content using multimedia (images, text and sound) and facilitate interactivity and simulation, thereby offering opportunities to improve learning and making new ways of understanding possible. Thus, the use of new technologies can offer exciting new possibilities to promote the changes in education methodologies called for in ESD.