“YOUNG NOISE RESEARCHERS”: AN INTERVENTION TO PROMOTE NOISE AWARENESS IN PRESCHOOL CHILDREN

Vasilia Christidou; Anastasia Dimitriou; Nikos Barkas; Maria Papadopoulou; Stergios Grammenos

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“YOUNG NOISE RESEARCHERS”: AN INTERVENTION TO PROMOTE NOISE AWARENESS IN PRESCHOOL CHILDREN

Title	“YOUNG NOISE RESEARCHERS”: AN INTERVENTION TO PROMOTE NOISE AWARENESS IN PRESCHOOL CHILDREN
Publication Type	Journal Article
Year of Publication	2015
Authors	Christidou, V, Dimitriou, A, Barkas, N, Papadopoulou, M, Grammenos, S
Journal	Journal of Baltic Science Education
Volume	14
Issue	5
Start Page	569–585
Pagination	Continuous
Date Published	October/2015
Type of Article	Original article
ISSN	1648-3898
Other Numbers	ICID: 1180090
Keywords	Early childhood education, pupils’ noise awareness, science education
Abstract	While little is known about how young children understand noise and its environmental aspects, this topic is suggested to be included in science curricula from early years on. To investigate if and to what extent preschool children’s level of noise awareness could be improved the ‘Young Noise Researchers’ educational scenario was designed, implemented and evaluated. Research design involved a pretest-posttest procedure. Participants were 52 Greek preschool children, who attended public kindergarten classes. The scenario involved 9 activities following the principles of context-based, socio-cognitive and multimodal teaching and learning, which were implemented by the teachers of the classes in a 4-week period. Prior to and after the intervention participants engaged in individual, semi-structured interviews. The results indicated improvement in children’s noise awareness in regard to acknowledging everyday noises, understanding annoyance and subjectivity of noise, adopting negative attitudes towards noise and acknowledging its health effects. Nevertheless, their noise awareness did not significantly improve in other crucial respects. Implications for teaching involve a more systematic focus on the distinction between sound and noise, noise subjectivity, the annoyance caused by noise in daily life and the possibility of more active and preventive protection measures.
URL	http://oaji.net/articles/2016/987-1479542288.pdf
DOI	10.33225/jbse/15.14.569
Refereed Designation	Refereed
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