Green-Tech in Education: A Step Forward for a Sustainable Future

Abstract

Natural environment always provides us with necessary items to live on this earth. We even can’t think of having a roof over our head without soil where the main pillar of our house is rested. But due to our reckless and whimsical activities, sometimes unable to sustain the unbearable pain, there happens Tsunami, earthquake, draught and many other natural disasters. So, education related to environmental sustainability should be one of the important parts of our education system. There should be the integrated school curriculum so that the students of present century can have sustainable ideas from their childhood. The researchers in this mixed method study used systematic review design as qualitative analysis and in quantitative design mean, SD and t test were done. A standardizaed questionnaire was developed by the researcher on the awareness level of the  educators in the application of green tech in higher education and the content validity was checked by three subject-experts and reliability (.70) was checked by Cronbach Alpha Method. For quantitative study, 100 samples were selected by simple random sampling by lottery method. Some identified areas revealed were like regional need identification, development of lab courses, training module for industry people, training of human resources, integration of environment education, water preservation and soil preservation techniques, project-based learning, development of e-content, life skill education, waste management, ethical values, critical thinking, energy efficiency, social media usage etc. A teacher has various roles to play in sustainability such as Integrator of sustainable education in curriculum, Promotion of environmental awareness, fostering problem solving and critical thinking, encouraging sustainable practices, developing interdisciplinary understanding, collaborating with community and industry, supporting project-based learning, protecting responsibility and environmental ethics, preparing students for green career and leveraging technology for sustainability. In the case of quantitative analysis, it was proved that there was no gender-based significant difference in awareness about using green tech in higher education for a sustainable future but in the case of habitat area-based awareness there was a significant difference. There is a need to develop awareness about green technology in education among the school-teachers as well as higher education educators.