The Examination of Interest Corners and Materials in Pre-school Education Institutions in Istanbul*

Abstract

This study was conducted to determine the current condition of interest corners and materials used in these corners in pre- school education institutions in Istanbul. The research suits a scanning model which was performed via filling out a survey form created by researchers in 74 pre-school classes of 25 different schools in 12 districts of Istanbul. It was seen in the study, where frequency distribution and percentage calculations were used in statistical analysis, that although playing house, library and music corners were highly available, number of materials used in these corners weren’t sufficient enough. Moreover, we observed that visual-audial, woodwork-joinery and computer corners were rarely used whereas water and sand corners weren’t available in any of the classes. The study has shown that despite materials of art were the most common ones, art corners weren’t the mostly seen corners in the classes. Temporary interest corners like jobs, new year, health and traffic were mostly available but tailoring and writing corners weren’t available in any of the classes. The most materials observed were related to health, writing and traffic corners, whereas the least materials observed were related to new year and grocery corners.