This research examines the effects of an environmental education program using environmental picture books on forming environmentally friendly attitudes of kindergarteners. It was implemented with 56 five-year-old children in D city. The experimental ...
This research examines the effects of an environmental education program using environmental picture books on forming environmentally friendly attitudes of kindergarteners. It was implemented with 56 five-year-old children in D city. The experimental group, which participated in an environmental education program using environmental picture books, was compared to a control group which did not have any environmental education program. To find out the effects of forming environmentally friendly attitudes, CATES-PV (The Children's Attitudes Toward the Environment Scale-Preschool Version) as a research tool which Musser and Diamond (1999) made and Lee, Gyu-Jin (2006) modified was revised according to the purpose and contents of this research. This tool is designed to measure two subordinate factors, which are nature friendly attitude and environment preservation attitude.
This research progressed in the order of pilot study, pre-test, experimental treatment and post-test. For the experimental program continued for 8 weeks, the children were read- aloud the books twice per week. After the read-aloud activity, physical expression activities, games, play activities, modeling activities, and science activities as far extended activities. To identify if there was a significant difference between groups after the experiment, the average and standard deviation of the children‘s attitude toward environment were calculated. Then, ANCOVA was utilized by putting pre-scores of two groups as covariate and post-scores of two groups as dependent variables.
The results from this study are as follow.
First, the environmental education program using environmental picture books was effective in forming environmentally friendly attitudes of young children.
Second, the environmental education program using environmental picture books was effective in forming nature friendly attitudes.
Third, the environmental education program using environmental picture books was effective in forming environment preservation attitudes.