Eco-School in kindergartens: the effects, interpretation, and implementation of a pilot program

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F46747885%3A24510%2F17%3A00008839" target="_blank" >RIV/46747885:24510/17:00008839 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/00216224:14230/17:00095792 RIV/44555601:13430/17:43888037

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13504622.2015.1076768" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13504622.2015.1076768</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2015.1076768" target="_blank" >10.1080/13504622.2015.1076768</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Eco-School in kindergartens: the effects, interpretation, and implementation of a pilot program

Original language description

This study presents an analysis of a Czech pilot project in implementing the Eco-School program in kindergartens. The evaluation applied a mixed design that included pre/post testing of children using picture-based questionnaires, and interviews with the teachers responsible for conducting the program. The findings revealed a significant increase in the pro-environmental attitudes of the children (N = 419) between the pre-test and the post-test. The results of the qualitative part showed a broad spectrum of the ways in which the program was interpreted by the teachers (N = 16): while some teachers interpreted the program in a highly instrumental way, others interpreted it as emancipatory. Their different ways of interpreting the program led the teachers to different models of distribution of power between the adults and the children. Some of the teachers made the effort to establish a democratic participation of the children in setting the program agenda, but others manipulated the children to obtain their agreement with pre-selected activities. Although the study did not find any evidence that the instrumental implementation of the program would be less effective in promoting children’s attitude change, it showed differences in the interpretation of the merit of the program among the teachers.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50300 - Education

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Environmental Education Research

ISSN

1350-4622

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

23

Issue of the periodical within the volume

7

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

919-936

UT code for WoS article

000405630600002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84941338876