Implementation of Nature Loving Education in a Malaysian kindergarten: teachers’ retrospective

Abstract

Environmental awareness has three concepts that include emotional, attitude and practice of sustainability awareness (Hassan, Noordin, & Sulaiman, 2010). It is critical to emphasize humanity's development in order to awaken human benevolence and raise environmental awareness. One of the aims of the study is to investigate the teacher’s incorporation of Nature Loving Education into an early childhood lesson. Data collection was conducted through interviews, classroom observation, and document analysis. The findings of this study indicate that teachers used a variety of teaching methods to impart Nature Loving knowledge to the children, including activities and games, drawing, reading a picture book, and speech and drama. As for the impact of study, teachers are an important influence on multiple levels of learning for children during the earliest years of school. Nature loving education promotes environmental awareness among pre-schoolers that include emotional, attitude and practice of sustainability awareness. It is the ability of a teacher to transfer knowledge into attitude and daily practice in order to increase children's environmental awareness. The study concludes that Nature Loving Education could be incorporated into a school program or lesson to educate children to become whole person who are balanced in their physical, spiritual, mental, and intellectual development, and to become environmental monitors who shape positive environmental behaviour and attitudes.