• 한국환경교육학회지:환경교육
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.27-38
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• 2007

The purpose of this study was to investigate how the future users of a children's garden felt about the designing and operation of the children's garden, which is to be constructed within Korea National Arboretum. For this study, a total of 1,855 elementary school children were selected and then classified by sex and grade. The survey had been carried out to examine the following five items: necessity and advantages of the garden, plants suitable for it, artificial facilities required for it, its space structure, programs necessary for educational activities, and operation programs. The results are as follows: 1. Necessity and advantages of the children's garden: Some 87.7% of respondents said the garden is needed, it would serve for environmental preservation, it would function as a resting place, and it would have educational effect; 2. Plants suitable for it: Uncommon plants which have flowers of several colors; 3. Artificial facilities required for it: Places for experience and rest; 4. Programs necessary for educational activities: maze experiencing and gardening; and 5. Operation programs: Some 86.3% of the respondents said they are needed. They thought educational programs providing the activities of experiencing would be preferable. This study provides basic materials for the planning and designing of the children's garden. When constructing the garden, we should have enough prior discussion for the matters listed above. Furthermore, it is needed to develop several educational programs for efficient operation and management.

• 인간식물환경학회지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.385-393
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• 2019

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of forest activities on the cortisol concentrations in the body and emotional vocabulary of kindergarteners. The participants were 36 kindergarten children aged 4-5, 17 in the control group and 19 in the experimental group. Forest activities consisted of six steps according to the level of kindergarteners, and the program was carried out at G City Environment Training Institute. Before and after the experiment, the children's emotional vocabulary was self-reported and salivary cortisol was analyzed to evaluate changes in the body's stress hormones. As a result, in the control group, positive words increased significantly from 0.14 to 1.53 (p=.003), but the decrease in negative words was not significant (p=.059). In the experimental group, positive words increased significantly from 0.47 to 2.84 after forest activities (p=.000). Negative words decreased significantly from 1.94 to 0.00 after forest activities (p=.000). In the analysis of salivary cortisol, the change in salivary cortisol concentrations was not significant (p=.667) in the control group, merely decreasing from 0.179 ㎍/dl to 0.161 ㎍/dl. However, the experimental group showed a significant decrease from 0.202 ㎍/dl to 0.161 ㎍/dl after forest activities (p=.049). These results suggest that forest play activities may be helpful in encouraging young children's emotional development by increasing positive vocabulary and decreasing negative vocabulary and reducing stress in kindergarteners.

• 한국화예디자인학연구
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• 제41호
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• pp.13-24
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• 2019

본 연구는 유아의 숲놀이와 관련된 연구논문을 분석하고 앞으로의 연구방향과 기초자료를 제시하기 위하여 실시하였다. 2009년부터 2018년까지 학술연구정보서비스(www.riss.kr)에 제공된 유아를 대상으로 한 숲놀이 논문 중 174편을 연구대상으로 하였다. 연구대상에 따른 논문수는 유아를 대상으로 한 논문이 114편으로 가장 많았다. 유아를 대상으로 한 숲놀이 논문의 연구 방향의 경향을 보면 실험연구(55.17%), 조사연구(17.82%), 관찰연구(9.77%), 사례연구(5.75%), 문헌연구(6.32%), 기타(5.17%) 순이었다. 대상연령별 연구 경향을 살펴보면 단일연령을 대상으로 연구한 논문의 경우 만 2세(3.51%), 만 3세(2.63%), 만 4세(9.65%), 만 5세(35.96%) 순 이었다. 만 2~5세의 유아를 혼합하여 연구한 경우(40.36%), 만 1세 영아 또는 장애아(7.89%)로 나타났다. 유아발달의 경향을 살펴보면 정서발달(30.7%), 사회성발달(25.44%), 인지발달(16.67%), 자아개념발달(14.04%), 신체발달(6.14%), 언어발달(3.51%), 기타(3.51%) 순으로 나타나 언어발달과 유아 숲놀이에 대한 연구가 필요한 것으로 판단되었다.

• 인간식물환경학회지
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.555-564
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• 2020

Background and objective: This study was conducted to investigate the effect of an agro-healing program on the relationship satisfaction and emotional change between parents and children. Methods: We sent an official letter to D Office of Education with information and recruitment for the agro-healing program. Then D Office of Education has sent the official letter to elementary schools under the jurisdiction to recruit parents who were willing to participate in the programs with their children. The subjects were recruited by order of application, and 27 families participated, but 20 parent-child teams who attended all sessions and fully participated in the program were ultimately selected. From October 12 to November 16, 2019, a total of 6 sessions of the programs were held once a week at a care farm in Gyeongsangbuk-do. In the morning, they participated in a program that utilizes the resources of plants and animals in the care farm, and later participated in an indoor horticultural program in the afternoon. Results: In the parent-child relationship satisfaction test, it was found that communication was significantly increased after participating in the agro-healing program (p = .047). There were no statistically significant changes in the sentence completion tests written by the children, but their potential perception or attitude towards their parents changed more positively than before according to the content of the sentences. Conclusion: The agro-healing program could strengthen the relationship between parent and child by improving the parent-child relationship satisfaction and children's emotional attitude towards their parent.

• 인간식물환경학회지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.55-65
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• 2020

This study conducted a survey on 163 parents in Korea to investigate their interest in plants, experience in growing plants, and perception on horticultural activity programs (HAP) for their children. Most children (80.4%) of the respondents had experience participating in HAPs, and most of their experience occurred during school hours in preschool educational institutions more than once a month (60.3%). The more interest in plants and experience in growing plants the parents had, the more experience the preschoolers had in participating in HAPs, which implies that the experience of the parents with plants affected their children's participation in HAPs. Parents' most preferred location of HAPs was preschool educational institutions, and most preferred time was school hours with a frequency of more than once a week (57.1%), which is more frequent than the current status of HAPs in preschool educational institutions. Parents also responded that the most preferred instructors of HAP has are those with a professional background in horticulture. Among the activities in HAP for preschoolers, parents most preferred cooking (M = 4.05) activity, and they did not dislike any of the activities. They responded that the facilities for HAP needed to be improved to make HAP more active in preschool educational institutions. Overall, based on the current results, developing suitable HAPs and facilities for preschoolers, fostering professional HAP instructors, and educating parents about horticulture would enhance HAPs in preschool educational institutions, thus providing preschoolers with many benefits of HAPs.

• 인간식물환경학회지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.211-220
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• 2020

The purpose of this study was to analyze the frequency and contents of horticultural activities in 696 individual activities listed in 11 teacher's guidebooks of Nuri Curriculum for 5-year-olds, and to find out the perceptions of horticultural activities in the formal curriculum. The target horticultural activities that were selected were those using natural objects like potted plants, water, wind, soil, stones, etc. as the topic or subject of activities, and those with different topics but are mentioning plants or natural objects as an example at least twice. The 150 selected horticultural activities were classified by life-based theme, activity type, activity domain, and medium. As a result of examining horticultural activities by life-based theme, there were 150 horticultural activities (21.55%): 40 in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter (5.75%), 34 in Animals, Plants, and Nature (4.89%), 22 in Environment and Life (3.16%), 19 in Our Country (2.73%), and nine in Our Neighborhood (1.29%), nine in Various Countries of the World (1.29%), four in Health and Safety (0.57%), four in Living tools (0.57%), four in Transportation (0.57%), three in Kindergarten and Friends (0.43%), two in Me and My Family (0.29%; χ²=130.427, p < .001). As a result of examining horticultural activities by activity type, there were 61 free choice activities (40.67%), 80 large and small group activities (53.33%), and nine outdoor play activities (6.00%), indicating that outdoor play was the fewest activity type (χ²=54.040, p < .001). The results of analyzing horticultural activities by activity domain showed that there were 25 in conversation (16.67%), 19 in science (12.50%), 14 in art (9.33%), 14 in cooking (9.33%), 10 in fairy tales (6.00%), nine in music (6.00%), eight in language (5.33%), eight in number operation (5.33%), eight in others (5.33%), six in children's plays (4.0%), six in games (4.0%), four in body and movement (2.67%), three in stacking (2.00%), three in roles (2.00%), three in rhythm (2.00%), two in children's poems (1.33%), two in field experience (1.33%) and one in outside play (0.67%; χ²=87.600, p < .001). As a result of examining the mediums used in the horticultural activities, 46 activities (30.67%) directly used plants as the mediums, 11 activities (7.33%) used soil such as stones, gravel, and earth as the mediums instead of plants, four activities (2.67%) used dry plants such as branches and dry leaves as the mediums, and 89 activities (59.33%) used videos, photos of plants, and pictures of plants as the mediums (χ²=121.307, p < .001).

• 한국화예디자인학연구
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• 제41호
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• pp.155-169
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• 2019

본 연구는 블룸의 교육목표에 따른 원예동화책의 교육적 특성과 인식을 분석하는데 목적을 두었다. 이를 위하여 Web에서 식물과 원예활동에 관한 키워드 검색을 통해 수집한 70여 권의 그림동화책 중에서 이들이 담고 있는 내용에 따라 블룸의 교육목표 인지적 영역(cognitive domain), 정의적 영역(emtional domain), 심동적 영역(psychomotor domain)에 해당하는 동화책으로 분류하고 이에 대한 내용적 특성과 원예교육과 관련된 내용을 찾아 분석하여 교육적 효과를 기술하였다. 또한 서울지역 교사들을 대상으로 기초조사(인구학적 변인조사), 원예그림동화책을 활용한 원예교육 방법(교육법)으로 스토리텔링전략, 그림동화책 후 활용, 효과적인 교육 기자재 등을, 원예교육 인식에 대한 조사로서 원예그림동화책 특성, 장점, 단점 및 도움이 되는 점 등을 조사하였다. 설문지 분석결과, 원예그림동화책을 활용한 원예교육을 하였을 때 교사가 인식하는 장점으로는 '원예활동에 관한 아이들의 흥미와 관심을 불러일으키는 것', 그러나 단점으로는 '교육활동시간이 부족하다는 것'이 나왔다. 그림동화책을 이용하였을 때 학교현장에서 도움이 되는 것은 '수업에 도입하기 쉽다'는 점으로 나타났다. 원예그림동화책 교육방법에 대한 인식으로는 스토리텔링 중 가장 효과적인 방법은 '이야기 몰입', 그림책을 읽은 후 효과적인 활동은 '그림 그리기', 원예그림동화책 교육에 가장 효과적인 기자재는 '실물화상기'로 나타났다.

• 인간식물환경학회지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.29-38
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• 2021

Background and objective: The physical environment where children spend most of their time is closely associated with their emotional development. To improve the emotional health of children, the introduction of natural elements in the indoor space has been suggested, the benefits of which have been shown in preliminary studies. This study aims to examine the effects that a biowall - a wall installation - in a classroom has on the emotional health of children in kindergarten. Methods: A total of four biowalls were separately installed in four kindergarten classrooms at a school in Seoul, South Korea, and the 60 children in these classrooms participated in the study. We assessed the children's emotional intelligence (via an Emotional Intelligence Rating Scale), resilience (via the Devereux Early Childhood Assessment), and eco-friendly attitudes (via the Children's Attitudes Toward Scale) before the installation of the biowalls and then again 3 months later. Results: The children's emotional intelligence, resilience, and eco-friendly attitudes had been significantly improved after the installation of the biowalls (p = .01). The sub-categories of the children's emotional intelligence and resilience were also significantly improved (p < .001). Conclusion: This study demonstrates the potential of biowalls-as an indoor environmental factor-in promoting the healthy emotional development of children. By bringing natural elements into indoor classroom settings, biowalls appear to increase children's direct/indirect contact with nature. To extrapolate the results of the study to the general population, future studies should be conducted with broader age groups.

• 한국화예디자인학연구
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• 제41호
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• pp.3-12
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• 2019

본 연구는 숲놀이 활동이 유아의 감정어휘 변화에 미치는 영향을 알아보고자 실시하였다. G시에 소재한 환경연수에 방문한 만 4~5세 유아 498명을 대상으로 1시간 동안 숲놀이 활동을 하였다. 그 결과 긍정어휘는 숲놀이 전 0.95±0.78개서 숲놀이 후 1.15±1.21개로 유의하게 향상되었고(p=.003), 부정어휘는 1.27±1.58개에서 0.41±1.10개로 유의하게 감소하였다(p=.000). 남자유아의 긍정어휘는 숲놀이 전 0.96±0.82개서 숲놀이후 1.36±1.24로 유의하게 증가하였고(p=.000), 부정어휘는 숲놀이 전1.42±1.74개서 숲놀이 후0.55±1.30개로 유의하게 감소하였다(p=.000). 여자유아의 긍정어휘는 1.12±1.37개에서 0.26±0.26개로 유의하게 감소하였으나(p=.000), 긍정어휘 증가는 유의성이 나타나지 않았다(p=.851). 만4세 유아의 긍정어휘는 숲놀이 전 후에 유의한 차이가 없었고(p=.471), 부정어휘는 숲놀이 전 1.04±1.42개서 숲놀이 후 0.41±1.16개로 유의하게 감소하였다(p=.000). 만 5세 유아의 긍정어휘는 숲놀이 전 0.96±0.85개서 숲놀이 후 1.23±1.21개로 유의하게 증가하였고(p=.001), 부정어휘의 경우 1.41±1.65개에서 0.41±1.16개로 유의하게 감소하였다(p=.000). 본 연구의 결과 숲속에서 다양한 자연물을 이용한 놀이 활동은 자연과 직접적인 접촉으로 정서적인 해방감, 긴장감 완화, 스트레스 감소에 도움을 주어 부정어휘 감소에 영향을 미쳤을 것으로 판단된다.

• 인간식물환경학회지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.47-53
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• 2020

This study conducted a horticultural therapy program for trainees entrusted to the Juvenile Classification Review Center in order to fill the educational gap while providing emotional stability during the one-month period of commissioned education. The effects of horticultural therapy were examined by the pretest and posttest changes of the emotional items such as anxiety, self-esteem, self-efficacy and stress index. As the research method, this study used the one-group pretest-posttest experimental design on 16 female trainees of commissioned education staying at the Juvenile Classification Review Center in the juvenile reformatory located in A city. The horticultural therapy program was carried out in four sessions: two on flower arrangement and two on planting. The scores before and after the horticultural therapy program were measured using the Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale (RCMAS) to examine the effects of horticultural therapy on the reduction of anxiety for the adolescents staying in the Juvenile Classification Review Center. The results show that there was significant decrease in the mean of anxiety from 62.5 (SD = 6.8) to 57.6 (SD = 8.1) points after the program (p = .002). There was no significant change in self-esteem, which was 76.9 (SD = 11.2) before the horticultural therapy and 78.3 (SD = 8.7) after the therapy (p = .420). In self-efficacy, there was no significant change from 72.9 (SD = 10.9) before and 75.1 (SD = 11.0) after horticultural therapy (p = .178). In order to examine the physiological changes in such emotional functions, this study measured the stress index using the uBioMacpa as the tool. The result of the measurement showed that there was a significant change in the mean from 33.8 (SD = 2.3) before to 31.1 (SD = 2.2) after the horticultural therapy (p < .001).