Project Approach in Environmental Education

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10.2991/icece-16.2017.42How to use a DOI?

Keywords

environmental education, early childhood, project approach

Abstract

Humans and environment are an integral part. Environmental problems that occur recently will affect the quality of human life. Environmental education is a solution to form an aware human in maintaining and preserving the surrounding environment. Some experts believe that environmental education that introduced early can be a basis establishment of good character in children. The experience of learning that takes place at an early age will become the foundation for subsequent learning experiences. Many fundamental qualities of importance to environmental education can develop significantly during early childhood. The learning experiences in early childhood are ideally delivered through direct experiences that are meaningful and fun. Project Approach is one approach that appropriate to facilitating children's learning in environmental education. Project approach can help children develop cognitive skills, especially problem-solving skills, as it exposes them to the everyday problems such as environmental problems, which demand solutions. Through the project approach a child has the opportunity to work in group to develop social skills and especially skills in collaborating with others. This discussion will be focused on conceptualization of environmental education and project approach as one of the strategy that can be used in early childhood setting.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Heny Djoehaeni
AU  - Ocih Setiasih
AU  - Leli Kurniawati
AU  - Asep Deni Gustiana
PY  - 2016/11
DA  - 2016/11
TI  - Project Approach in Environmental Education
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Early Childhood Education (ICECE 2016)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 239
EP  - 243
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icece-16.2017.42
DO  - 10.2991/icece-16.2017.42
ID  - Djoehaeni2016/11
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