%0 Journal Article %T The Effects of Respect for Diversity Program with Family Involvement on 5 and 6 Year Old Children Respect for Diversity %A TUBA £¿ZKABAK YILDIZ %J - %D 2018 %X The main aim of this study is to examine the effect of Respect for Diversity Program with Family Involvement developed for the age group of 5-6 years on children's level of respect for diversity. Prepared based on a constructivist approach; "Respect for Diversity Program with Family Involvement Developed for the Age Group of 5-6 Years" consists of a total of 52 integrated activities, each of them implemented for 3 days a week. The study is a quantitative study. A model with a pretest-posttest control group, which is among the experimental models, was used in the study. The study group consisted of a total of 23 children; 12 in the experimental group (7 girls, 5 boys) and 11 in the control group (7 girls, 4 boys) in the age group of 5-6 years attending preschool education in Kad£¿k£¿y, £¿stanbul in the spring term of the school year of 2015-2016. The "Scale of Respect for Diversity" developed by Ekmi£¿o£¿lu (2007) was used in the research. Non-parametric tests were used in the analysis of the data. The Mann Whitney U test was employed to determine whether there was a difference between the pre-test results of the experimental and control groups. The Wilcoxon Signed Sequence Test was used to compare the pre-test and post-test total scores of the experimental group. The difference between the post-test scores of the experimental and control groups was checked by the Mann-Whitney U test. On the grounds of the study results, it is possible to state that the ¡°Respect for Family-Attended Diversity Curriculum Developed for the Age Group of 5-6 Years¡± affects children¡¯s levels of respect for diversity positively %K Aile kat£¿l£¿m£¿ %K Farkl£¿l£¿klara sayg£¿ %K Farkl£¿l£¿klara sayg£¿ programlar£¿ %K Okul £¿ncesi e£¿itim %U http://dergipark.org.tr/eku/issue/41979/466812