The effect of nature-friendly environmental education program on environmental conservation attitudes

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to figure out the effect of nature-friendly environmental education program on environmental conservation attitudes. To achieve this, experimental research was done on total 40 children of two classes among 4-year old classes in preschools of Chungcheong-do. They were classified into the experimental group of 20 young children(10 male young children, female young children) and the control group of 20 young children(10 male young children, 10 female young children). This study showed that the nature-friendly environmental education program for them has a positive effect on the environmental conservation attitudes. Especially, it was confirmed that the program is a key mechanism to improve sub-factors of environmental conservation attitudes for practice, environmental life attitude, environmental conservation awareness, resource management attitude and resource-recycling attitude. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.