Effect of Environmental Education Program Integrated with Preschool Curriculum on Children’s Mental Model Development about “Environment” Concept

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Berat AHİ ◽  
Fatma ALİSİNANOĞLU
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Mental Model ◽  
Model Development ◽  
Preschool Curriculum

Effect of environmental education program integrated into preschool education on children’s mental model development about “environment” concept

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 29-40
Author(s):  
Berat Ahi ◽  
Fatma Alisinanoglu
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Mental Model ◽  
Model Development ◽  
Preschool Education ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Post Test ◽  
And Control ◽  
Experimental Group

 Aim of this study is to determine the effect of environmental education program integrated into preschool education aged between 48-66 months on children’s mental model development about “environment” concept. Triangular mixed design was used in this research. Quantitative dimension of the study was carried out with quasi-experimental design with control group and qualitative dimension of the study was carried out with using phenomenological method based on social constructivist philosophy. Study group of the research consisted of 52 children from experimental and control groups. Statistically significant difference was observed in the scores of children in the experimental and control groups from DAET-R (U= 44, z= -5.44, p= .000, r= .75). Mental model development about environment of the majority of the children from the experimental group reached to an expected level. However, no development was obtained in the mental model development of the children in the control group. Results also showed that 80.8% of the children from experimental group defined environment as a place which people, animals and plants live together and the amount of the children from control group who defined environment similar to this level is 26.9%. In addition, there was no significant difference in the total pre-test and post-test DAET-R scores of children from the control group (z= -1.401, p > .05) and significant difference was observed in the pre-test and post-test DAET-R scores of children in the experimental group in support of post-test results (z= -4.126, p < .05). Keywords: Environment; Mental Model; Child; Pre-school Educatio; Environmental Education

Antecedents of learners' mental model development

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Kohari ◽  
Robert Lord ◽  
Joelle Elicker ◽  
Steven Ash ◽  
Bryce Hruska
Keyword(s):  
Mental Model ◽  
Model Development

Technology-Mediated Collaboration, Shared Mental Model and Task Performance

2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hayward P. Andres
Keyword(s):  
Social Influence ◽  
Direct Observation ◽  
Mental Model ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Model Development ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Team Process ◽  
Shared Mental Model ◽  
Team Productivity ◽  
The Impact

This study takes a direct observation research approach to examine how the impact of collaboration mode on team productivity and process satisfaction is mediated by shared mental model. Team cognition and social impact theories are integrated to provide a framework for explaining how technology-mediated collaboration constrains or enhances team shared mental model development and its subsequent impact on task outcomes. Partial least squares analysis revealed that technology-mediated collaboration impacts shared mental model development. The results also demonstrate that timely and accurate development of shared mental model facilitates increases in both productivity and team process satisfaction. Direct observation of team process behaviors suggests that collaboration modes differ not only in their impact on communication facilitation but efficacy-based, motivational, and social influence factors (e.g., self-efficacy and team-efficacy, perceived salience and credibility of contributions, social influence on action, etc.) as well. Shared mental model development requires quality communication among team members that are motivated to participate by a positive team climate that promotes idea convergence.

scholarly journals «A New Global Ethic»: A History of the United Nations International Environmental Education Program, 1975-1995

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-108
Author(s):  
Charles Dorn
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Environmental Ethic ◽  
Nature Protection ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Natural Resource Conservation ◽  
History Of ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Interdisciplinary Study

In 1975, the United Nations, under the auspices of its Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and Environment Program (UNEP), established the International Environmental Education Program (IEEP). For two decades, IEEP aimed to accomplish goals ascribed to it by UNESCO member states and fostered communication across the international community through Connect, the UNESCO-UNEP environmental education newsletter. After reviewing UNESCO’s early involvement with the environment, this study examines IEEP’s development, beginning with its conceptual grounding in the 1968 UNESCO Biosphere Conference. It examines the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment held in Stockholm, moves on to the UNESCO-UNEP 1975 Belgrade Workshop, and continues with the world’s first intergovernmental conference dedicated to environmental education held in Tbilisi in 1977. The paper then uses Connect to trace changes in the form and content of environmental education. Across two decades, environmental education shifted from providing instruction about nature protection and natural resource conservation to fostering an environmental ethic through a problems-based, interdisciplinary study of the ecology of the total environment to adopting the concept of sustainable development. IEEP ultimately met with mixed success. Yet it was the primary United Nations program assigned the task of creating and implementing environmental education globally and thus offers a particularly useful lens through which to analyze changes in the international community’s understanding of the concept of the environment over time.

scholarly journals DEVELOPING APPRECIATIVE LITERATURE TEXTBOOK BASED ON THEMATIC-INTEGRATIVE THROUGH ACTIVE LEARNING TO IMPROVE UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS’ APPRECIATIVE CAPABILITY ON POETRY AND DRAMA IN ELEMENTARY TECHER EDUCATION PROGRAM

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Endang Sri Markamah ◽  
St. Y. Slamet ◽  
Rukayah Rukayah ◽  
Retno Winarni
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Teacher Education Program ◽  
Model Development ◽  
Field Testing ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
Interactive Analysis ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Independent Technique

<p><em>The objectives of this research </em><em>we</em><em>re: (1) to describe students</em><em>’</em><em> and lecturers</em><em>’ </em><em>needs </em><em>on </em><em>poetry and drama </em><em>appreciative textbook</em><em>, (2) to describe the development of textbook model (3) to find the effectiveness of textbook </em><em>model</em><em> 4) to describe textbook dissemination. The type of research used was research </em><em>and </em><em>development. Research was done through 4 stages: (1) </em><em>exploration</em><em>, (2) model development, (3) model testing, (4) dissemination. Exploration stage used qualitative descriptive approach. Data </em><em>was collected through</em><em> in-depth interviews, observation, documentation, and questionnaires. Data analysis technique </em><em>was </em><em>interactive analysis model. </em><em>M</em><em>odel testing </em><em>was done through </em><em>experimental research. The results of this research were: (1) </em><em>the </em><em>exploration stage showed that the </em><em>poetry and drama learning </em><em>textbook used by </em><em>Elementary Teacher Education Program (ETEP) </em><em>student</em><em>sin </em><em>Surakarta </em><em>did </em><em>not </em><em>meet the </em><em>student</em><em>s’</em><em> and lecturer</em><em>s’ need</em><em>, (2) model development </em><em>stage producedappreciative poetry and drama </em><em>textbook through preliminary field testing; (3) </em><em>model </em><em>testing phase </em><em>was to test</em><em> effectiveness </em><em>of the textbook used </em><em>t-test </em><em>non-</em><em>independent technique</em><em>.It was </em><em>obtained t</em><em><sub>obtain</sub></em><em>of </em><em>23 </em><em>and </em><em>t</em><em><sub>table(</sub></em><em><sub>90; 0.05)</sub></em><em>of </em><em>1.67. Thus, t</em><em><sub>obtained</sub></em><em> (23)&gt; t<sub>table</sub> (1.67) </em><em>which meant that</em><em> the hypothesis was accepted (Ho was rejected). In conclusion, the </em><em>Appreciative</em><em> Poetry and Drama textbook model was effectively improve students' poetry and drama appreciation skills. Dissemination was done through national seminars, article writing in international journals, as well as the publishing of an Integrative-thematic Textbook of Poetry and Drama Learning</em><em> with ISBN</em><em>.</em></p>

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