A Study of Awareness Regarding Child Rights Education among Male and Female Pupil-Teachers

Abstract

Child rights education is most important for the teachers and it is important to consider it in the pre-service and in-service training programme. For the protection of child rights in education and other fields, it is necessary to train early childhood educators, teachers, judges, lawyers and other officials such as child welfare officials, child and youth welfare participation. In the present study, an attempt was made to study awareness regarding Child Rights Education among male and female pupil teachers. Based on the objective of the study, the hypothesis was stated as: There is no significant difference in the awareness of Child Rights Education among male and female pupil teachers. A quantitative approach was followed in the study. A Descriptive survey method was used in the study. The population of the study was comprised of pupil teachers male and females of all constituents units of NCERT i.e. Regional Institutes of Education Ajmer, Bhubaneswar, Bhopal, Mysore & Shillong. Data was collected via online mode. The researcher has considered the pupil-teacher as a sample of the study in which B.Ed. & B.Sc. B.Ed. / B.A. B.Ed. pupil-teachers were included. For this study, Pupil teachers were selected by stratified random sampling technique. Self-Developed Questionnaire on “Awareness of child rights education for pupil teachers” was administered for data collection. The analysis of the data was done by simple percentage method and t-test. It was found in the study that there is no significant difference in the awareness of Child Rights Education among male and female pupil teachers.