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- Title
Integrating field-trip activities with other activities in the preschool curriculum: its effects on the preschoolers’ social-emotional skills.
- Authors
Kızıltaş, Emine; Sak, Ramazan
- Abstract
This study used a static-group pretest-posttest design to investigate how the social-emotional skill development of 36 Turkish children aged 48-66 months was affected by the integration of field-trip activities with other activities in their preschool curriculum. It was carried out in two preschool institutions in Ağrı Provincial Directorate for National Education over 12 weeks during the 2015-2016 school year. The experimental group (<italic>n</italic> = 18) was taken on field trips tailored to activities in the existing preschool curriculum, while for the control group (<italic>n</italic> = 18), no such interventions were made. The Preschool Social Skill Evaluation Scale—Teacher Form and the Emotional Skill Evaluation Test were used to gather data, and one-way analysis of covariance and paired-samples <italic>t</italic>-tests was used for data analysis. The pretest scores of the experimental and control groups were not significantly different, whereas their posttest scores indicated a significant positive effect of field-trip activities on the social-emotional skills of children in the experimental group. A follow-up test administered 12 weeks after the posttest found that these positive effects persisted.
- Subjects
PRESCHOOL curriculum; PRESCHOOL education; SOCIAL skills education; ANALYSIS of covariance; CONTROL groups
- Publication
International Journal of Child Care & Education Policy, 2018, Vol 12, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1976-5681
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/s40723-018-0047-0