Implementation of an educational environmental programme focused on the sorting of waste for nursery school children and evaluation of its effectiveness

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://library.iated.org/view/PAVLATOVA2017IMP" target="_blank" >https://library.iated.org/view/PAVLATOVA2017IMP</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.21125/iceri.2017.0721" target="_blank" >10.21125/iceri.2017.0721</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Implementation of an educational environmental programme focused on the sorting of waste for nursery school children and evaluation of its effectiveness

Original language description

This article aims to introduce the design, implementation and evaluation of an educational programme for nursery school children with the intentional use of elements of environmental education. The programme was focused on handling waste. The pupils of the &quot;Eco-School&quot; of the Bishop Grammar School Bohosudov participated in both designing the program and its implementation. (EcoSchool is the largest international environmental program in the world with 16,000,000 pupils from 49,000 schools and 64 countries). Altogether we performed the programme for 10 nursery schools. Children gained information on sorting and preventing waste by other forms and methods than they were used to - we used enjoyable but for the children new environment, the project teaching methods and the benefits of mutual learning by secondary school students, not adults. The activities of the program were arranged into a fairy-tale performance age-appropriate to the respondents. The fairy-tale (programme) is called &quot;Snow White and the Seven Bins&quot; and deals in an enjoyable and interactive way with sorting, but also preventing waste. The name of the programme refers to seven different colours of containers for sorting waste, whose use is standardized in the Czech Republic (yellow for plastic, blue for paper, green for glass, orange for carton, red for hazardous waste, brown for biodegradable waste, black for mixed waste). The program was carried out for the total of 213 respondents from 3 to 7 years of age, the most strongly represented group being 5 to 6-year-olds. The participants were selected from Ústí nad Labem Region in the Czech Republic. This article presents an evaluation of the programme&apos;s effectiveness, the reflection of the bases and the evaluation of the benefits to pedagogical practice. To measure the level of knowledge and skills, pre-tests and post-tests were used. The content of the tests was identical, containing 4 images of different colours of containers and images of waste. The children were supposed to circle the right type of waste (for instance, for a blue paper container the children circled a picture of a newspaper and a book). For the correct type of waste, points were added, for wrongly marked waste, points were deducted. The data obtained were subjected to statistical analysis. Statistically significant effect of the programme on the knowledge and skills of children was found. There has been no evidence of gender impact on the values found. The use of teaching methods, changing of the environment, as well as the use of pupils as teachers, probably influenced the knowledge shift. You can find a sample of the program here: https://youtu.be/NmkksRrS8zA

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

ICERI 2017 proceedings

ISBN

978-84-697-6957-7

ISSN

2340-1095

e-ISSN

neuvedeno

Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

2543-2548

Publisher name

IATED

Place of publication

Seville

Event location

Seville, Spain

Event date

Nov 16, 2017

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

000429975302097