CONCEPT OF POPULATION

Concept of Population and Population Education

Population Education

Education plays a vital role to control the population growth. It helps to bring different social changes in a country. Population education helps to maintain quality of life, spend a happy and prosperous life(“Notes on Concept of Population and Population Education | Grade 9 > Environment Population and Health > Concept of Health, Population, and Environment Education | KULLABS.COM,” n.d.). It helps in getting knowledge of the causes and consequences of population growth and its various effects. It studies various aspects of people's lives they are: sex education, family planning, population statistics, etc.

Population Education is the process of developing population awareness as well as rational altitude and behavior towards the situation for the attainment of quality of life, for the individual, the family, the community, the nation, and the world.

Figure 1.Zero population

Importance of Population Education

 Population growth and its harmful results in the status of the environmental aspects are the great threats to the entire living world. The main reason for the uncontrolled population growth is the lack of awareness about population-related problems. Many people in our countries are still having a large family. Population education is trying to bring awareness among community people. The importance of population education is given below:

Figure 2.Population

Creation of Awareness. Lack of awareness is the main problem that leads to population increase. People give undue emphasis on their son. They go on giving birth to too many babies. Population education helps to create awareness by reducing such pretentious and injecting the norms and values of a small family in the people. It helps to make rational and Responsible Attitude Toward Population Situation.

Promotion of Quality of Life. We cannot maintain the quality of life if the size of the family is large. The needs, desires, and wants of family members cannot be fulfilled. Population education not only teaches about the causes and consequences of population growth but also about the ways of natural resources and achieve the quality of life.

Development of Positive Attitude. People of our society still believes in superstition. They take children as the boon of God. They take the birth of a son as a compulsion. Population education helps to establish a modern attitude toward such issues.

Insurance of Future Generation. The goal of population education is long term development and awareness. The main reason for introducing population education at school level is to make the future generation aware of such problems. It also provides information about human sexuality, reproduction so that there will not found early marriage, unwanted birth and so on.

Major areas of population Education

These are six major areas in population education:

Table 1.

 Areas of Population Education

·   The population growth

·   Economic development and population growth

·   Social development and population growth

·   Health, nutrition, and population

·   Biological factor-family life and population

·   Population programmers-national and international

References

Notes on the Concept of Population and Population Education | Grade 9 > Environment Population and Health > Concept of Health, Population and Environment Education | KULLABS.COM. (n.d.). Retrieved August 20, 2019, from https://www.kullabs.com/classes/subjects/units/lessons/notes/note-detail/913
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