Abstract

This study examined environmental knowledge and attitude of in-service and pre-service secondary school teachers of Social Studies in Osun State. The study adopted a descriptive design of survey type. Simple random sampling technique was used to select 150 in-service teachers' drawn from all junior secondary schools, both public and private in  Osun State and 150 pre-service teachers also drawn from the Social Studies Department in the Osun State College of Education,  Ila-Orangun, Osun State. The instrument used for data collection was a structured questionnaire (r = 0.73). three hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. Data were analyzed using t-test statistics. Findings showed that in-service teachers had better knowledge of environmental education concepts than pre-service teachers; female teachers had more positive attitude towards environmental education concepts than the male teachers. was conducted to compare the mean values of the experienced social studies teachers and inexperienced teachers in knowledge of environmental education. It was found that there was a difference in the knowledge of in-service experienced teachers and pre-service inexperienced teachers in environmental education concepts. The findings further show that the pre-service and in-service social studies teachers' perception on provision of environmental education concepts in the College of Education was higher than the pre-services teachers. It is therefore recommended that there should be conferences, workshops and seminars on EE, while regular training in EE should be given to in-service and pre-service teachers of the various subjects in which EE concepts have been integrated.