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This study was purposed to research an effect of the nature-friendly experience activity on sociality development of young children and set up those subjects like followings ; 1) What dose the nature-friendly experience activity effects on sociality development of young children? i) What dos...

This study was purposed to research an effect of the nature-friendly experience activity on sociality development of young children and set up those subjects like followings ; 1) What dose the nature-friendly experience activity effects on sociality development of young children? i) What dose the nature-friendly experience activity effects on the cooperation mind of young children? ii) What dose the nature-friendly experience activity effects on the ability of perspective acceptance of young children? iii) What dose the nature-friendly experience activity effects on independent ability of young children? iv) What dose the nature-friendly experience activity effects on reciprocal action of young children? The objects of this study were selected the 20 four-aged children(10 boys, 10 girls) who were B kindergarten located at S dong in S city as the experimental group and the same size group as the comparative group which was P kindergarten located near to B kindergarten. Also, the experimental group was applied to the nature-friendly experience activity and the comparative group was excluded from the nature-friendly experience activity. The measure tool for sociality development of young children which was restructured and developed for Korean situation by Sook-kyung Kim in 1988 was used for this study. And the experiment was practiced 16 times, which performed 2 times in a week for 8 weeks, from 19th March 2008 to 9th May 2008. Also, the SPSS WIN 12.0 program for Windows was used to statistical method with t-test and ANCOVA for the data analysis. The results of this study by research subject were like followings; First, the nature-friendly experience activity is effective to develop sociality development of young children. Second, the nature-friendly experience activity is effective to develop the cooperation mind of young children. Third, the nature-friendly experience activity is effective to develop the ability of perspective acceptance of young children. Forth, the nature-friendly experience activity is effective to develop independent ability of young children. First, the nature-friendly experience activity is effective to develop reciprocal action of young children. Therefore, this study shows that the nature-friendly experience activity in educational program of kindergarten effects importantly on sociality development of young children.

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