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The Effects of Experience Activities for Kitchen Garden Cultivation on Children's Inquiry Skills and Dietary Attitudes

텃밭가꾸기 체험활동이 유아의 탐구능력과 식생활 태도에 미치는 영향

  • Kang, Young-Sik (Dept. of Early Childhood Education, Chung-Nam National University)
  • 강영식 (충남대학교 교육대학원 교육학과 유아교육)
  • Received : 2014.05.12
  • Accepted : 2014.06.12
  • Published : 2014.06.30
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Abstract

This study examined the effects of the experience activities for kitchen garden cultivation on children's inquiry skills and dietary attitudes. To achieve this, an experiment was conducted on a total of 43 kindergarten children in a class of 4- and 5-year-olds, who were classified into an experimental group of 35 children (20 male children, 15 female children) and control group of 20 children (8 male children, 12 female children), in Daejeon Metropolitan City. This study showed that children's experience of kitchen garden cultivation helps improve their inquiry skills and dietary attitudes. The results proved their experience activities for kitchen garden cultivation to be useful for improving their inquiry skills and dietary attitudes. Consequently, their experience activities and inquiry learning of participant observation using a natural subject like kitchen garden cultivation can be encouraged to improve the awareness, which can improve their dietary attitudes as the responsibility of their family, and their distorted dietary habits and attitudes. In other words, these results highlight the interdisciplinary and educational usefulness in that their inquiry learning can expect a high educational effect.

본 연구는 텃밭가꾸기 체험활동이 유아의 탐구능력과 식생활 태도에 미치는 영향을 알아보는데 목적을 갖고, 대전광역시에 위치한 어린이집 만 4-5세반 원아를 대상으로 실험집단 35명(남 20명, 여 15명)과 통제집단 20명(남 8명, 여 12명)의 총 43명을 대상으로 실험조사 하였다. 연구결과 텃밭가꾸기 체험활동이 유아의 탐구능력과 식생활 태도 향상에 효과가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 이같은 결과는 유아들의 텃밭가꾸기 체험활동이 유아의 탐구능력과 식생활 태도 개선에 유용한 활동임을 입증해준 것이라 할 수 있다. 따라서 그동안 유아들의 식생활 태도 개선을 가정의 책임으로 간주하는 인식과 왜곡된 식습관 및 태도개선에 텃밭가꾸기와 같은 자연주제를 활용한 체험활동과 관찰참여의 탐구학습을 적극 권장할 수 있을 것으로 판단되며, 이는 유아들의 탐구학습을 통해 높은 교육효과를 기대할 수 있다는 측면에서 학제적 교육적 측면에서의 유용성을 시사한 것으로 볼 수 있다.

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