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added in curriculum as basic and important concepts about the environment. Wherefore, the goal of education must create that early sufficient awareness.
A survey of literature on Environmental Awareness yielded quite inconclusive results. Shahnawaj 1990, in a study on environmental awareness and environmental
attitude of secondary and higher secondary teachers and students in Rajasthan, found that female students possessed significantly more awareness than males while quite
opposite results are reported by Tripathi 2000 where boys had better awareness than girls. Sabhlok 1995 found that urban teachers differed significantly from rural and
tribal teachers on their awareness of environmental problems. No difference was observed between rural teachers and the tribal teachers. On the contrary, Dinakara
2000 reported significant difference between urban and rural school teachers in environmental awareness. Also, government and private school teachers differed
significantly in their environmental awareness. Patel and Patel 1995 found significant impact of environmental awareness programs on the environmental
awareness of the teachers Larijani, 2010.
The present study is aimed at identifying the variation of awareness among the students in government high schools of solo city in Indonesia. It is hypothesized that
students do differ in their levels of environmental awareness and variables like gender, and scholastic phases, will have significant on levels of environmental
awareness.