The Contributions of Landscape Implementations in Primary School Gardens to Education and Students

İlköğretim Okul Bahçesi Peyzaj Uygulamalarının Eğitim Öğretim ve Öğrencilere Katkıları

Abstract

In this study, it was aimed to determine the contributions of physical developments in school gardensto students by designing landscape implementations for a modelled school. Mecidiye Primary and SecondarySchool, which are located in one of the central districts-Yakutiye, was chosen as the modelling school. The study isbased on landscape implementation design process, partial landscape implementations and the data obtained fromquestionnaire results before and after the implementation. 212 students were attended to the questionnaire beforethe implementation started; and 174 students attended the questionnaire after the implementation ended. The datawere analysed using descriptive statistics of SPSS 18 program and signed ranked test. According to comparativeanalysis of the results of questionnaires which was done by students before and after the implementation to find outcontributions to students physical recruitment at schoolyard, it has been found out that more qualitative physicalenvironment contributes to students well-being in several ways and this contribution is statistically significant(for 22 questions, the result of Wilcoxon signed rank test is z= -3.52, p<.05). According to questionnaire results,landscape implementations were found out to contribute to the rate of students’ satisfaction at %33.1, the rate ofacquiring environmental consciousness at %20.1, the rate of increase at school success at %39.2, the rate of theiruse for educational purposes at %8.7, and the rate of increase in accidents and crash number among students duringbreaks at %28.7.

Özet

Araştırmada örneklenen okul için katılımcı yaklaşımla peyzaj tasarımı yaparak okul bahçesinde yapılan