The Effect of Environmental Awareness Education Program on Children's Environmental Awareness

Abstract

Education programs are learning experiences that take place with planned activities offered to the individual and contribute to the upbringing of people in society and the realization of goals related to them. The aim of this study is to examine the effect of the environmental awareness education program applied to preschool children on children's environmental awareness. The study group of the research consisted of a total of 41 children, 20 children in the control group and 21 children in the experimental group, who were studying in kindergarten classes affiliated to the Ministry of National Education and had not participated in any environmental education program before. This study has a pre-test post-test control group experimental design. According to this design, the application of the pre-test, the application of the environmental awareness education program and the application of the post-test are carried out respectively. "Personal information form" and "Environmental awareness scale for children" were used as data collection tools in the study. The data were analyzed with SPSS statistical package program. According to the findings of the study, it was found that the environmental awareness education program was effective on the environmental awareness of preschool children.