TY - JOUR AU - Basit, Osman AU - Ömeroğlu, Esra PY - 2018/10/04 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - The effect of communication training on mother-child communication applied by "from child to mother approach" in mobile kindergarten JF - Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction JA - PEGEGOG VL - 9 IS - 1 SE - Article DO - 10.14527/pegegog.2019.002 UR - https://www.pegegog.net/index.php/pegegog/article/view/pegegog.2019.002 SP - 37-60 AB - <p>This research was carried out with the aim of examining the impact of communication training based on ‘from the child to mother approach’ on the communication of the mothers with their children attending mobile preschools. The sample comprised 80 children attending mobile preschool and mothers of those children. Two of the five neighborhoods served by the mobile preschool were designated randomly as experiment groups and the remaining as control groups. There were 33 children and mothers in the experimental group and 47 in the control group. The data was collected by General Information Form and Parent-Child Communication Evaluation Tool. During the course of the research, the Communication Training Program prepared by the researcher and based on the Child to Mother Approach was applied to the experimental group for two days in a week during eight weeks. In order to examine the impact of Communication Training Program on mother-child communication, t-test was conducted for both the independent group and the dependent group. Statistical significance was set at .05. As a result of the analyses, it has been determined that the Communication Training Program has a positive effect on communication between mothers and children and this effect is permanent. In line with the results of the research, suggestions for preschool education teachers, parents and researchers are presented.</p> ER -