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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2019.20.5.334

The Educational Effectiveness of Forest Experience Activities  

Kang, Young-Sik (Dept of Early Childhood Education, Chung-Nam National University)
Kim, Joeng-Kyoum (Dept of Early Childhood Education, Chung-Nam National University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.20, no.5, 2019 , pp. 334-342 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study is empirically intended to look into the effects of parents' perception of their children's forest experience activities on educational effectiveness. The results were as follows. First, parents' perception of forest experience operation activities had a significant effect on educational effectiveness according to the period of participation in forest experience education. And their perception of the appropriate number of teachers to support forest experience had a significant effect on educational effectiveness. Second, parents' perception - which it is appropriate for the current daycare centers to participate in forest experience every day except a day with a lot of fine dust and a day with bad weather- had a significant effect on educational effectiveness. And their perception of appropriate forest experience places had a significant effect on educational effectiveness. Third, parents' perception of appropriate time in the day for forest experience activities had a significant effect on educational effectiveness. Fourth, parents' perception of their children's forest experience activities had a significant effect on communication. As for the above-stated findings, there was a significant difference in educational effectiveness and communication according to parents' perception of their children's overall forest experience activities. Consequently, there is the differences in their perception of educational effectiveness in the number of teachers in charge due to outdoor activities, the relationship with weather due to fine dust, forest experience places, education time, etc, indicating that these common concerns are related to the safe educational activities of children.
Keywords
Forest Experience Activities; Nature-Friendly Education; Parental Perception; Educational Effect; Parent-Child Communication;
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