Green School Practices in Quezon Province: Groundwork for a Sustainable Development Program
Green School Practices in Quezon Province: Groundwork for a Sustainable Development Program
Jennifer M. Oestar
DepEd Lucena City, Philippines
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ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT
This research explored the green school practices and go green programs in Quezon Province with an end view of developing a sustainable green school development program. A quantitative research using the descriptive-comparative design, this study included 16 secondary schools, where 112 teacher-coordinators and school head participants purposively accomplished a survey-questionnaire. Weighted mean and analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used to analyze the data. Results show that the most common green school practices is Green Healthy Space (gardening) while the least is Resources Sustainability (waste management). A sustainable development pro- gram was proposed to address the reported lack of sustainability of green school programs in the province. The findings of the study can serve as a good basis for DepEd top management for a more localized implementation towards the goal of effecting behavioral change on environment-related matters (increasing recycling, care of neglected areas, promoting green healthy spaces, etc.) within the locality where the schools belong.
Keywords: green school practices, sustainable development, go green program
ABSTRAK
ABSTRAK
Tinukoy sa pananaliksik na ito ang mga green school practices at go green programs sa Quezon Province para sa layuning makabuo ng sustainable green school development program. Isang quantitative na pananaliksik na gumamit ng descriptive-comparative design, labing-anim na paaralang sekundarya, 112 na mga guro at mga punongguro ang naging kalahok at nagsagot ng survey-questionnaire. Weighted mean at analysis of variance (ANOVA) ang ginamit upang ma-proseso ang mga datos. Ipinapakita ng mga resulta na ang pinaka karaniwang mga gawain sa luntiang paaralan ay Green Healthy Space (paghahalaman) habang ang pinaka madalang naman ay Resources Sustainability (pamamahala ng basura). Isang sustainable development program ang iminungkahi upang matugunan ang naiulat na kawalan ng pagpapanatili ng mga green school programs sa lalawigan. Iminumungkahing ito ay gawing batayan ng mga namamahala sa DepEd para sa pagpapatupad ng mga polisiya na may kaugnayan sa kapaligiran (hal., pagpapalawig ng recycling, pangangalaga ng mga napabayaang lugar, pagtataguyod ng luntian at malusog na es- pasyo, atbp.) sa loob at kapaligiran ng paaralan.
Mga Susing Salita: gawain sa luntiang paaralan, napapanatiling pag-unlad, green school program
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