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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2018.19.2.413

A Study on the Effects of Children's Forest Experience Activities on Parent-Child Relationship and Child Attitude Change  

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.19, no.2, 2018 , pp. 413-421 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study is intended to look into the effects of children's forest experience activities on parent-child relationship and child attitude change. To achieve this, a survey was empirically carried out to 185 children. The results were as follows. First, the normality of parent-child relationship before and after forest experience activities showed that the parent-child relationship increased from 3.229 points before participation in forest experience activities to 3.841 points after participation in forest experience activities on average. And the child attitude increased from 3.226 points before participation in forest experience activities to 3.765 points after participation in forest experience activities, which there was a change of mean value before and after forest experience activities in both concepts. Second, the difference in parent-child relationship and child attitude change before and after forest experience activities showed that both parent-child relationship(Z=-10.98, p<.001) and child attitude(Z=-11.05, p<.001) did have significant differences before and after forest experience activities in the significant level of .05. As for the above-mentioned findings, children's forest experience activities improves the parent-child relationship and changes their behaviors outside the kindergarten. Consequently, nature-friendly forest experience education can provide emotional stability for children and help them build a positive rapport between teacher, parent and peer.
Keywords
Forest Experience Activities; Parent-Child Relationship; Child Attitude Change; Attitude Change; forest experience;
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