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Assessment of Junior High School Students’ Awareness of Climate Change and Sustainable Development in Central Region, Ghana

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dc.contributor.author Owolabi, Henry Olu
dc.contributor.author Gyimah, Emmanuel Kofi
dc.contributor.author Amponsah, Mark Owusu
dc.date.accessioned 2022-03-18T09:45:48Z
dc.date.available 2022-03-18T09:45:48Z
dc.date.issued 2012-09
dc.identifier.issn 23105496
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/7895
dc.description 11p:, ill. en_US
dc.description.abstract The study investigated the extent to which students of 13 Junior High Schools (JHS) in Twifu Praso district and Cape Coast metropolis in the Central Region of Ghana were aware of issues related to climate change and sustainable development. It adopted the descriptive survey design and employed the purposive sampling technique to select 400 final year research participants to respond to questionnaire items based on their school curriculum. The analysis was however based on valid responses of 367 respondents. There was a statistical significant difference in the awareness of climate change between students in rural and urban schools. However, students’ awareness of climate change and sustainable development was generally low. Also, there was no difference found in the students’ awareness of sustainable development. The age of students had no significant influence on their performance in climate change and sustainable development test. Implications of these findings were discussed and it was suggested that climate change units be included in the teaching syllabuses/curricular and teachers should give more attention to the prescribed units of the text books. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher University of Cape Coast en_US
dc.subject climate change en_US
dc.subject sustainable development en_US
dc.subject junior high school curriculum en_US
dc.subject awareness en_US
dc.title Assessment of Junior High School Students’ Awareness of Climate Change and Sustainable Development in Central Region, Ghana en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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