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International Journal on New Trends in Education and Their Implications 2014, Vol. 5(1) 209-218

My Own Past: an Example of Family Involvement Project Applied to Improve 48 – 54 Months Old Children’s Perception of the Past

Rengin ZEMBAT, Fatma Ozge UNSAL, Fatih YAZICI, Elif KURTULUS KUCUKOGLU, Tuba OZKABAK YILDIZ, Hilal Ilknur TUNCELI

pp. 209 - 218

Publish Date: January 31, 2014  |   Single/Total View: 0/0   |   Single/Total Download: 0/0


Abstract

Preschool period is highly important in the sense that children generate their individual identity and perceptions related to their own past. In addition, based on the principle that learning experiences start from children’s close environment to far, considering “proofs” such as daily objects, clothes, photo album and verbal witnessing students have an opportunity to create their own past and constitute a historical narration. Built upon this theoretical framework, the study makes use of pretest – posttest without control group model. Teacher Observation Form was adopted as a pretest in order to determine 48 – 54 months old thirteen children’s the perception of the past, who constituted the research group of Prof. Dr. Ayla Oktay’s Application Unit at Atatürk Education Faculty at Marmara University during 2012 – 2013 Academic Year. As for the application of the study, within an hour allocated for them in the company of their families, students made presentations in front of their friends regarding their own past using things, clothes, photos, etc. from their International Journal on New Trends in Education and Their Implications January 2014 Volume: 5 Issue: 1 Article: 20 ISSN 1309-6249 Copyright © International Journal on New Trends in Education and Their Implications / www.ijonte.org 210 infancy. Posttest which was based on Teacher Observation Form showed that consisting family involvement and project based application process resulted in significant changes in terms of students’ perception of the past.

Keywords: Preschool, Perception of the Past, Historian Skills, Project Based Learning, Family Involvement


How to Cite this Article?

APA 7th edition
ZEMBAT, R., UNSAL, .O., YAZICI, ., KUCUKOGLU, .K., YILDIZ, .O., & TUNCELI, H.I. (2014). My Own Past: an Example of Family Involvement Project Applied to Improve 48 – 54 Months Old Children’s Perception of the Past. International Journal on New Trends in Education and Their Implications, 5(1), 209-218.

Harvard
ZEMBAT, R., UNSAL, ., YAZICI, ., KUCUKOGLU, ., YILDIZ, . and TUNCELI, H. (2014). My Own Past: an Example of Family Involvement Project Applied to Improve 48 – 54 Months Old Children’s Perception of the Past. International Journal on New Trends in Education and Their Implications, 5(1), pp. 209-218.

Chicago 16th edition
ZEMBAT, Rengin,  Fatma Ozge UNSAL,  Fatih YAZICI,  Elif KURTULUS KUCUKOGLU,  Tuba OZKABAK YILDIZ and Hilal Ilknur TUNCELI (2014). "My Own Past: an Example of Family Involvement Project Applied to Improve 48 – 54 Months Old Children’s Perception of the Past". International Journal on New Trends in Education and Their Implications 5 (1):209-218.