Özet:

İt is thought that permaculture education, when given to children at an early age, will not only raise awareness in children about nature, environmental problems and solutions, sustainability and so on, but also it will provide them with aesthetic emotions and opportunity for physical activities, support their social and sensory development, increase their academic achievement (especially for concepts used in science and mathematics education), and improve their skills in using tools (raking, shovel, etc.). Activities using the principles of permaculture design in school gardens, neighborhoods or balconies of their homes help children to produce healthy food, draw attention to the issue of sustainability, offer solutions to the problems caused by today's excessive consumption and problems in their immediate environment, soil and fertilizer production, improvement of the living spaces of animals, and therefore, it is important to include such activities in the pre-school education stage, which is the most basic stage of education, in order to support their skill development and provide benefits in many other ways. In our country, there are no academic studies in the field of education based on the permaculture approach, especially in pre-school education, but there are some studies that private and public educational institutions at various levels such as preschool, primary school, secondary school, high school have carried out some permaculture projects and designed school gardens for permaculture design. This situation clearly showed that awareness in the field of education has started, but there is still a great deficiency in terms of academic studies. With this study, it is aimed to fill the gap in the literature and to create a resource for researchers and educators who want to work on permaculture design, which has recently started to spread in our country, which is still relevant in the world.

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