A MEDIA PROGRAM ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL CULTURAL ACTIVITIES TO DEVELOP THE SKILLS OF CREATIVE SOLUTION OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS FOR CHILDREN AT THE TALAAT HARB CULTURAL CREATIVITY CENTER

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1 Faculty of Graduate Studies and Environmental Research, Ain Shams University

2 Faculty of Postgraduate Studies of Childhood, Ain Shams University

3 Faculty of Education, Ain Shams University

Abstract

The research aimed to develop some creative solving skills for children’s environmental problems through a media program in environmental cultural activities. The research group consisted of thirty girls and boys - who frequented the Talaat Harb Cultural Creativity Center in Sayyida Nafisa, affiliated with the Cultural Development Fund of the Egyptian Ministry of Culture - and included research materials and tools on a program a proposal for environmental cultural activities and a measure of creative solving skills for environmental problems. The one-group experimental method was used. After applying the program, the children acquired some creative solving skills for environmental problems, and this appeared through the scale provided to them, and through calculating the frequencies, percentages, arithmetic averages, and standard deviation for each situation separately. Hence, the success of the effectiveness of the program presented to the children in the research sample was proven through various activities in the program.The research recommended generalizing these environmental cultural activities to the creativity centers of the Ministry of Culture, schools, and universities, to develop the skills of creative solution to environmental problems and integrating the environmental dimension into activities of all kinds becomes a way of life for every person to preserve and protect the environment

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