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ArticleFrontiers in psychology2026

Outcomes associated with participation in a sustainability environmental education program: preschool children's life skills and computational thinking.

Merve Arabacı, Mehmet Oğuz Göle, Ahmet Murat Uzun, Ümit Ünsal Kaya, Nezahat Hamiden Karaca

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Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Merve ArabacıDepartment of Early Childhood Education, Afyon Kocatepe University, Afyonkarahisar, Türkiye.
Mehmet Oğuz GöleDepartment of Early Childhood Education, Afyon Kocatepe University, Afyonkarahisar, Türkiye.
Ahmet Murat UzunDepartment of Instructional Technologies, Afyon Kocatepe University, Afyonkarahisar, Türkiye.
Ümit Ünsal KayaSchool of Foreign Languages, Afyon Kocatepe University, Afyonkarahisar, Türkiye.
Nezahat Hamiden KaracaDepartment of Early Childhood Education, Afyon Kocatepe University, Afyonkarahisar, Türkiye.

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Abstract

Introduction: This study examined whether participation in the Sustainable Environmental Education Program (SEEP) was associated with differences in preschool children's life skills and computational thinking-related outcomes. Methods: A quasi-experimental pretest-posttest design with a non-equivalent control group was employed. Intact classrooms were allocated to either an experimental condition ( Results: Relative to the control group, children in the experimental group showed more favorable pretest-to-posttest patterns in overall life skills scores and in TechCheck-K mathematical thinking and critical thinking scores. Within the experimental group, scores did not change significantly over the three-week follow-up period. Discussion: These findings provide preliminary evidence that participation in a sustainability-oriented experiential preschool program may be associated with selected socio-emotional and cognitive outcomes in early childhood. Interpretation is constrained by the quasi-experimental design, classroom-level assignment analyzed at the individual level, reliance on teacher-reported life skills ratings, and a short follow-up conducted only within the experimental group.

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computational thinkingearly childhood educationlife skillsnature-based learningsustainability

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PMCPMC13230123

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