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 Volume 8, Issue 10 (October 2021), Pages: 77-84

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 Original Research Paper

 Title: Sustainable life practice for preschool pupils: Sustainable environmental education program (SEEP) model

 Author(s): Çimen Özburak *

 Affiliation(s):

 Faculty of Architecture, Near East University, Nicosia, Cyprus

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8661-4403

 Digital Object Identifier: 

 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2021.10.009

 Abstract:

Global pollution can only handle with education in early childhood. Especially, the pre-school period is an important time for environmental education. It is seen that current pre-school education programs generally include environmental education but it has missing parts. The aim of the study is to add the built environment elements to the environmental education programs that include only natural elements such as trees, animals, etc. The environment is basically divided into two parts as natural and built (man-made structures). There is no environmental education program in the literature that includes these two basic subjects. The built environment includes architectural elements such as buildings, bridges, and infrastructure systems. All people use these systems and should have knowledge about them. The complete Sustainable Environmental Education Model has been created which is including both natural and built environmental elements for preschool pupils in the study. The LEED criteria were taken as a reference while planning the model. The model was applied to 134 (5 years old) pupils who studying pre-school education for eight months. As a result of the model application, the level of awareness of pupils who have never study any environmental education before, according to the beginning of the program, is from 23.37% to 79.81% in sustainable areas, from 23.87% to 85.32% in "efficient water use", from 13.80% to 91.79% in efficient energy use and from 13.78% to 82.98% in the usage of waste materials It was determined that it increased. The designed model can be the solution for global pollution. 

 © 2021 The Authors. Published by IASE.

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

 Keywords: Environmental education, Preschool education, Sustainability awareness, Built environment, Sustainable development model

 Article History: Received 26 April 2021, Received in revised form 21 July 2021, Accepted 27 July 2021

 Acknowledgment 

In this study, the "Sustainable Environmental Education Model" testing has been financed by Near East University Scientific Research Coordination Unit.

 Compliance with ethical standards

 Conflict of interest: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

 Citation:

 Özburak Ç (2021). Sustainable life practice for preschool pupils: Sustainable environmental education program (SEEP) model. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 8(10): 77-84

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