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DEVELOPMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL LITERACY OF THE KINDERGARTEN FEMALE TEACHERS USING EDUCATIONAL MODULES AND ITS IMPACT ON DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIOR

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Last updated: 03 Jan 2025

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Female teacher of kindergarten considers the cornerstone in children' environmental education which targets are much difficult to be achieved without this teacher even in the availability of the most developed programs, activities, and educational media. A kindergarten female teacher has multiple responsibilities embedded in cultivating environmental behaviors in children; so, she should have environmental literacy through having environmental information characterized by environmental values and becoming an example in her proper environmental behavior to be able to orient and direct children' behavior in order to conserve the environment, protect it and resolve its problems.Therefore, the current study purpose is to develop elements of environmental literacy in female kindergarten teachers, measuring as well its impact on children' behaviors.The study counts for collecting data on these instruments: 1-   Designing four educational modules for developing environmental literacy of kindergarten female teachers 2-   Scale of Environmental Literacy ((information – attitudes – skills). 3-   Test of children Behavior (behavioral situations-environmental behavioral interviews). Four educational modules are designed to develop elements of environmental literacy. The post-application of instruments is administered on a sample of (40) female teachers selected from (6) kindergartens and (200) kindergarten children. Results monitoring indicate that examining the proposed program has a remarkable impact in developing elements of environmental literacy among the kindergarten female teachers, forming as well a positive environmental behavior in children towards the environment. The study has recommended train the kingergarten teacher to use various auto-learning approaches with their kindergarten children to develop their positive behaviors . 

DOI

10.21608/jes.2017.19594

Keywords

: Educational modules, Environmental literacy

Authors

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Karm El-Din,

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Laila A

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Institute of Postgraduate Childhood Studies, Ain Shams University

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Fahmy,

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A. A

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Faculty of Kindergarten Cairo University

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Abd Allah,

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M. W

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Institute of Environmental Studies & ResearchAin Shams University

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Volume

38

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1

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3930

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2017-06-01

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2017-06-01

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2017-06-01

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389

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415

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1110-0826

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2636-3178

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https://jes.journals.ekb.eg/article_19594.html

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500

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Journal of Environmental Science

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https://jes.journals.ekb.eg/

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DEVELOPMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL LITERACY OF THE KINDERGARTEN FEMALE TEACHERS USING EDUCATIONAL MODULES AND ITS IMPACT ON DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIOR

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22 Jan 2023