An Assessment Of The Integration Of Environmental Education Into Selected Secondary School Subjects Towards Sustainable Development

The main obiective of this study was to assess the integration of EE into both grade nine and tenrnbiology and geography curriculum guides and students' textbooks, and in the actual teaching andrnlearning process at North hoa. On the one hand, to assess the integration of EE into curriculumrnguide and students' textbooks of grade nine and ten biology and geography, both qualitative andrnquantitative data were collected through content analysis. On the other hand, to assess thernintegration of EE into the teaching and learning process, both qualitative and quantitative datarnwere collected form 373 students of which 225 (60.3 %) were grade nine and 148 (39.7%) wererngrad ten. From these students, data were collected using criterion-referenced test, open-endedrnquestions and Likert type scale. Then, the data collected from these participants were analyzedrnboth qualitatively and quantitatively (using descriptive statistics, parametric and non-parametricrnte ts). The result showed that EE objectives (knowledge, skills, attitudes and participation)rncontents, teaching methods and evaluation techniques were not adequately integrated. Thernresult from th test also showed that the majority of the students performed below the standardrnset (70%) by their teachers. However, when their achievement scores were analyzed in terms ofrnsex and grade level, statistically significant mean difference was obtained, t (371) = 2.26, p

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