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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2015.16.4.2486

The Effects of Forest Experience Activities for Developing a Moral Sense on Moral Development of Children  

Kang, Young-Sik (Dept. of Early Childhood Education, Chung-Nam National University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.16, no.4, 2015 , pp. 2486-2494 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study is intended to look into the effects of forest experience activities for developing a moral sense on moral development of children. To achieve this, forest experience activities were performed to 40 5-year-old children from H kindergarten in Chungnam area through April 7 to July 25, 2014. They were classified into an experimental group(9 male children and 11 female children) and a control group(9 male children and 11 female children). Forest experience activities and Nuri curriculum-related forest experience activities were performed to the experimental group and the control group 10 times, respectively. The results were as follows. First, forest activity education had an effect on improving children's moral judgment. Second, moral behaviors showed that the experimental group improved in order, courtesy and moderation, which forest experience activities had a significant effect on improvement in their moral behaviors. As stated above, children's forest activities will valuable education to enhance moral development that identifies the preciousness of life through communion and interaction with nature along with peers, and order, manners and self-control by joint cooperative activities between peers.
Keywords
forest activity; Moral Development; moral behavior; moral judgment;
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