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A Secondary Science Teachers Beliefs About Environmental Education and its Relationship With the Classroom Practices

Thesis Info

Author

Begum, Salima

Department

Institute for Educational Development, Karachi

Program

MEd

Institute

Aga Khan University

Institute Type

Private

City

Karachi

Province

Sindh

Country

Pakistan

Thesis Completing Year

2004

Thesis Completion Status

Completed

Subject

Education

Language

English

Added

2021-02-17 19:49:13

Modified

2024-03-24 20:25:49

ARI ID

1676727873372

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Global environmental issues are increasing due to the rapid developments in science and technology. To address these environmental issues there is a need to create an awareness about environmental education among the masses. This can only be possible through teachers and teacher educators. My underlying assumption is that science teachers are teaching environmental concepts as scientific facts, without creating an awareness about environmental education. The ultimate purpose of this study was to explore the beliefs of a secondary science teacher about environmental education and how his stated beliefs matched with his classroom practices. The study was conducted in one of the co-operative schools of the Aga Khan University- Institute for Educational Development, in Karachi Pakistan. And the sample for this study included one secondary science teacher. The research design was qualitative, which included multimethods. The methods included semi-structured interviews, classroom observations, pre-post conferences, document analysis and the teacher's teaching/learning stories. The study employed different data collection tools such as interview guidelines, a classroom observation checklist, teaching/learning stories and pre-post conference guideline questions. The findings of the study suggest that the participant science teacher in this sample believed in teaching environmental education in a science classroom. He also believed that students should be given a free choice to be involved in environmental participatory activities such as environmental management projects in the real environment. However his enacted teacher centred classroom practice was contrary to his stated beliefs. The factors that prevented him from enacting his beliefs were identified as his content knowledge, pedagogical knowledge and support from the administration. The study thus suggests professional development programmes and workshops for that employ reflective practices. Moreover, constructivist approaches should be designed to help teachers to enhance their content, pedagogical content knowledge about environmental education, and that should develop them professionally.
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اختر الایمان

موضوع10:اخترالایمان
اختر الایمان (پیدائش: 12 نومبر 1915ء — وفات: 9 مارچ 1996ئ) ضلع بجنوراترپردیش کی تحصیل نجیب آباد میں پیدا ہوئے تھے۔ ان کے والد کا نام مولوی فتح محمد تھا۔اختر الایمان جدید نظم کے مایہ ناز شاعر ہیں اور انہوں نے بالی ووڈ کو بھی خوب سیراب کیا ہے۔ اخترالایمان کا پیدائشی نام راؤ فتح محمد رکھا گیا تھا۔ راؤ اس راجپوت گھرانے کی وجہ سے تھا، جن سے ان کا تعلق تھا۔ اسی نام کی مناسبت سے ان کے گاؤں کا نام راؤ کھیڑی تھا۔ انہیں 1963ء میں فلم دھرم پوتر میں بہتری مکالمہ کے لیے فلم فیئر اعزاز سے نوازا گیا۔ یہی اعزاز انہیں 1966ء میں فلم وقت (فلم) کے لیے بھی ملا۔ 1962ء میں انہیں اردو میں اپنی خدمات کے لیے ساہتیہ اکیڈمی اعزاز ملا۔ یہ اعزاز ان کا مجموعہ یادیں کے لیے دیا گیا تھا۔
ابتدائی زندگی اور تعلیم:
ان کی ولادت 1915ء میں پتھر گنج، نجیب آباد ، بجنور ضلع، اتر پردیش، بھارت میں ہوئی۔ انہوں نے ابتدائی تعلیم بجنور میں ہی حاصل کی جہاں ان کی ملاقات اردو شاعر خورشید الاسلام سے ہوئی۔ وہ علی گڑھ مسلم یونیورسٹی میں معلم تھے اور رالف رسل سے ان کا گہرا واسطہ تھا۔ اختر الایمان نے ذاکر حسین دہلی کالج سے گریجویشن کی تعلیم مکمل کی۔
کیریئر:
یوں تو اردو شاعری میں غزل کا بول بالا رہا ہے اور ابتداء ہر شاعر غزل میں طبع آزامائی کرتا ہے مگر اخترالایمان نے غزم کی بجائے نظم کو ترجیح دی اور ایک کامیاب نظم کے شاعر بن کر ابھرے۔ یہ بات الاگ ہے کہ ان کی زبان غیر شاعرانہ ہے۔ لیکن ان کا پیغام بہت موثر ہے۔
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اس قلمی نام کو چننے کی وجہ یہ تھی کہ اس سے 1334ھ کا سال نکلتا ہے جو 1915ء اور 1916ء کو محیط ہے۔...

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