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September 5, 2025International Journal of Educational Innovation.1 citations

Designing activities for the environmental dimension of light in preschool education

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SVSAMARA VASILIKIKKKOTSIS KONSTANTINOS

Key Points

  • Preschoolers displayed basic concepts about light's environmental significance, particularly regarding energy sources and effects.
  • Key findings show that 14 preschoolers articulated ideas on the greenhouse effect and alternative forms of energy through various expressions.
  • Data collection employed questionnaires, semi-structured interviews, observations, and analyses of children's drawings.
  • Understanding preschoolers' perceptions can enhance educational practices, fostering early scientific engagement in environmental topics.

Abstract

The involvement of preschoolers in the natural sciences is considered necessary, because young children seem to form very early on the first ideas, interpretations, theories about the concepts and phenomena of the physical world and they are therefore able to approach relevant issues at a first level. The purpose of this paper is to investigate preschoolers" perceptions of concepts that define the environmental dimension of light (ozon, alternative forms of energy, greenhouse effect).The research sample consists of 14 preschoolers attending an all-day Kindergarten of Greece. The data collection was done with questionnaires, with semi - structured interviews, with observation, with recording of children’s’ actions and with study of children"s drawings. Nvivo11 software was used for the statistical analysis of the data.

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VASILIKI et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68bb4def6d6d5674bcd01cb8https://doi.org/10.69685/fizy4260
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