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. 2023 Nov 6:14:1286669.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1286669. eCollection 2023.

Non-depleting energy in the museum

Sırma Seda Bapoğlu Dümenci  1 , Neriman Aral  2 , Figen Gürsoy  2 , Emin Demir  1 , Gül Kadan  3 , Selim Tosun  2 , Nur Sena Öz  2 , Gökçe Hafızoğlu  4 , Cansel Tosun  5 , Şule Çelik  6 , Mehmet Geçen  6 , Özge Yelek  2 , Seda Hepgül  2 , Eda Özge Yazgan  7 , Yasemin Çekiç  2
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Non-depleting energy in the museum

Sırma Seda Bapoğlu Dümenci et al. Front Psychol. .

Abstract

The present study aimed to uncover whether the renewable energy education carried out in a museum has an impact on awareness of renewable energy and the environment among children and their parents. The study was carried out with two groups of 65 children aged 6 years and their parents (n = 47). The findings revealed significant differences between the pretest and posttest in favor of the pretest and between pretest and follow-up test in favor of follow-up test, but there was no significant difference between posttest and follow-up test. We determined It was observed that the children had a considerable willingness to participate in the sessions and used the names of renewable energy sources in their follow-up drawings or their remarks on the drawings. Moreover, given the parents' statements, we discovered that the children acquired considerable awareness of the environment and efficient energy consumption and became acting more consciously toward renewable energy sources.

Keywords: early childhood; environment; family; museum education; renewable energy sources.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Study design.
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Data collection procedure.
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Themes of drawing analysis.
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Renewable energy sources such as solar, wind, geothermal, biomass an hydropower.
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Presentation about the renewable energy sources for parents.
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Solar power and wind energy presentation at museum.
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Drawing on the experiences at the museum to the diaries.
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