e-Pedagogium 2021, 21(1):54-66 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2020.021

Impact of fieldwork education on performing cognitive and affective objectives in pupils at primary schools

Zbyněk Váchaa, Tomáš Ditrich
a Katedra biologie, Pedagogická fakulta, Jihočeská univerzita v Českých Budějovicích, Jeronýmova 10, 371 15 České Budějovice

The contribution explores the performance of educational objectives on cognitive and affective levels in pupils at lower primary schools subject to application of different educational environments. The control group was taught in a traditional classroom, while the experimental group was given lessons in the school garden. The theme of the lessons consisted in commonly occurring invertebrates. The total of 225 fifth-year pupils participated in the research survey. The performance of cognitive objectives was verified on the basis of the pre-test and post-test system. The level of affective objectives was determined by means of Likert type questionnaire. Results show a statistically significant impact of fieldwork education effected in the school garden on cognition in the area of identification of animals and pupils' interest in the topic concerned.

Keywords: fieldwork education, school garden, primary school.

Received: June 2, 2020; Revised: November 4, 2020; Accepted: December 5, 2020; Published: June 2, 2021  Show citation

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Vácha, Z., & Ditrich, T. (2021). Impact of fieldwork education on performing cognitive and affective objectives in pupils at primary schools. e-Pedagogium, 21(1), 54-66. doi: 10.5507/epd.2020.021
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