@article{2016,title={AN EVALUATION ON ENVIRONMENT TOURS IN PRESCHOOL EDUCATION ABOUT TRANSPORTATION PROCESSES},abstractNode={Motor vehicle traffic, safety and security issues and insufficiency of playgrounds in contemporary cities keep children away from outdoors. Under these circumstances, schools are expected to assume responsibility with a view to strengthening the relationship of children with their physical environment. In this study, aims at supporting tours allowing preschool children to interact with their environment and children’s, teacher’s and parent’s preferences and evaluations about environment tours are provided. Interviews with 30 children in the age group of 5 years, from three different nurseries, their parents and teachers have revealed that pedestrian and motor vehicle transportation are equally preferred and that they are considered as experiences contributing to transportation processes of children with respect to communication with the environment, healthy growth and socializing. Both parents and teachers have emphasized the positive contribution of extra scholastic experience to the children and complained that the number of tours organized for that purpose is not sufficient . Safe and secure transportation facilities for pre-school children in cities must be provided with a view to increasing the number of tours enabling the children to learn about their environment and to experience the life. To this end, perceptions and behaviors of pre-school children as well as their opinions and recommendations must be taken into consideration and in researches aiming at improvement of urban living conditions.},author={B. Ece ŞAHİN-Neslihan DOSTOĞLU},year={2016},journal={The Journal of International Educational Sciences}}