Peer-reviewed article
Integrative Holistic Learning Strategies in Early Childhood Education
Claudia Monique Pattiruhu, Korlina Makulua, Najdah Thalib, Elizar Elizar, Betharia Sembiring Pandia ·
Summary
Written by AI, not yet AICS's view · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001This study examines integrative holistic learning strategies in early childhood education in Indonesia. Holistic learning is described as an approach that gives full attention to children's development, including nutritional health education, protection, care and welfare. Using interviews with teachers, the researchers found that teachers need broader knowledge and insight into these strategies to improve educational quality and child outcomes. The study concludes that integrative holistic approaches are important for teachers and parents to support child development and achievement.
Key points
- Integrative holistic learning combines nutritional health education, protection, care and welfare in early childhood settings
- Teachers lack sufficient insight and knowledge about holistic learning strategies in early childhood education
- The approach requires collaboration between teachers and parents to improve child quality and achievement
- Implementing these strategies can help solve existing problems and shortcomings in early childhood education
- Research was conducted through direct interviews with early childhood education teachers
Limitations
The study only describes teacher perspectives through interviews and does not measure actual child outcomes or compare different pedagogical approaches. The research does not provide data on the effectiveness of integrative holistic strategies or demonstrate causation between the strategy and child development improvements.
Abstract
Integrative holistic learning is a process of giving full attention to early childhood to improve the quality and ability of children which includes providing nutritional health education services, protection, care and welfare. This study aims to determine the integrative holistic learning strategy in early childhood education. The research method used by researchers is a quantitative method with an observation model, namely conducting direct interviews with teachers. The results of this study indicate that it is important to add insight and broad knowledge about integrative holistic learning strategies in early childhood education. So that it can help solve existing problems and shortcomings regarding integrative holistic strategies in early childhood education, and can form an outstanding and quality generation. From this research it can be concluded that integrative holistic learning strategies in early childhood education are very important and necessary to help the role of a teacher and parents to improve the quality and achievement of children. The limitation in this study is that researchers only conducted research on integrative holistic learning strategies in early childhood education. Therefore, the researcher hopes that future researchers can conduct further research related to integrative holistic learning strategies in early childhood education to be further developed. Researchers also recommend that future researchers use the results of this study as a reference in conducting research on interactive holistic learning strategies in early childhood education.