The Effects of Respect for Diversity Program with Family Involvement on 5 and 6 Year Old Children Respect for Diversity

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