The Effect of the Brain-Based Environmental Education Program Applied to 5-6 Years of Pre-School Children on Their Sustainable Environmental Behaviors

Autor/inn/en	Özkan, Banu; Tugluk, Mehmet Nur
Titel	The Effect of the Brain-Based Environmental Education Program Applied to 5-6 Years of Pre-School Children on Their Sustainable Environmental Behaviors
Quelle	In: International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 14 (2022) 1, S.1117-1134 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1562-0506
Schlagwörter	Environmental Education; Preschool Children; Ecology; Sustainability; Kindergarten; Foreign Countries; Teaching Methods; Brain; Program Effectiveness; Cognitive Ability; Turkey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Umweltbildung; Umwelterziehung; Umweltpädagogik; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Ökologie; Nachhaltigkeit; Ausland; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Gehirn; Denkfähigkeit; Türkei
Abstract	The study aimed to determine the effect of a brain-based environmental program for preschool children aged 5-6 years on their sustainable environmental behaviors. For this purpose, an experimental study was designed for a period of 8 weeks. The participants of the study were composed of 20 children from middle socio-economic level families who attend two branches of a kindergarten in the province of Kütahya. Out of those 20 children, 10 were in the experimental group and 10 in the control group. The program applied to the experimental group was prepared by the researchers considering the principles of the brain-based learning approach. The 16 activities prepared for pre-school children were finalized by taking expert opinion from 5 experts in the field of pre-school education. The classrooms where the activities were implemented were arranged according to brain-based learning (such as heat, light, visual materials), fruits and drinking water were kept at the activity tables in order to meet the glucose and water needs of the brain, which are important in brain-based learning and that the brain needs for learning. Relaxation exercises were carried out and classical music was provided during all activities. Activities were held outside whenever the weather conditions are suitable. In the control group, the activities were prepared by the researchers according to the achievements in the 2013 Preschool Program of the Ministry of Education (MoNE). In the pretest and posttests, the "Environmentally Sustainable Behavior Assessment Scale for 60-72 Months-Old Children" developed by Özkan, Tugluk and Yigitalp (2019) was used. The scale consists of 20 items, consciousness and awareness, and 2 sub-dimensions. The scale is a 5-point Likert-type scale and is filled by the child's teacher for each child. Cronbach Alpha value of the scale; It is .92 for the awareness sub-dimension, .94 for the consciousness sub-dimension, and .92 for the whole scale (Özkan, Tugluk & Yigitalp, 2019). The results revealed that there was a significant difference between the pretest and posttest scores of the experimental group, and the posttest scores of the experimental and control groups. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	World Council for Curriculum and Instruction. California School of Education, Alliant International University, 10455 Pomerado Road, San Diego, CA 92131. Web site: http://ijci.wcci-international.org/index.php/IJCI/about
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01