The Impact of Farming on Children’s Critical Thinking Ability in Indonesia

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10.2991/assehr.k.200808.051How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Critical thinking, learning methods, farming

Abstract

The phenomenon showed that the level of critical thinking ability of children aged 5-6 years was low. This paper used quasi experimental nonequivalent group pretest - postest designed which applied purposive sampling techniques. The results showed that there was an impact of farming to children’s critical thinking ability of kindergarten’s students in Indonesia (t-count>t-table; 1.205 > 0.05). Additionally, it revealed that 76.47% of children were able to solve simple problems while 88.23% of children were able to complete their own tasks. It can be concluded that the ability of children to solve their own problems and to complete tasks when facing difficulties were low. In line with cognitive development, critical thinking can be developed in early childhood by using materials and methods that actively involved children to assist them to construct their own knowledge such as farming. Through that activity, children stimulated to do observing, identifying and analyzing.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Tesya Cahyani Kusuma
AU  - Yessi Rifmasari
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/08/10
TI  - The Impact of Farming on Children’s Critical Thinking Ability in Indonesia
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Early Childhood Education and Parenting 2019 (ECEP 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 259
EP  - 263
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200808.051
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200808.051
ID  - Kusuma2020
ER  -