Proceedings of the International Conference on Educational Science and Teacher Education (ICESTE 2025)

Growing with EcoGreen: A Thematic Textbook to Enhance Creative Thinking in Early Childhood

Authors
Mallevi Agustin Ningrum1, *, Kartika Rinakit Adhe1, Eka Cahya Maulidiyah1, Suharti Suharti1, Yes Matheos Lasarus Malaikosa1, Afifah Rahmaingrum1, Muhammad Naufal Fairuzillah1
1Universitas Negeri Surabaya, Lidah Wetan, Surabaya, Jawa Timur, 60231, Indonesia
*Corresponding author. Email: malleviningrum@unesa.ac.id
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Mallevi Agustin Ningrum
Available Online 24 November 2025.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-489-1_48How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Creative thinking skills; Textbook; Thematic; Early childhood
Abstract

The skills of creative children in Indonesia are considered low, according to the results of PISA 2018, which ranked Indonesia 74th out of 79 participating countries. This suggests that the creativity skills of Indonesian children are still not optimal. Strengthened with preliminary results showing that skills think creative children aged 5-6 years reached below 75%. Stimulation skills think creatively from an early beneficial in facing various challenges in life every day. Availability of EcoGreen textbook as source learning to be a teacher alternative solution problem. The purpose of the research is to analyze the validity, practicality, and effectiveness EcoGreen textbook for increased skills think creativity in children aged 5-6 years. Research This uses the ADDIE development model involving 36 children aged 5-6 years as a test subject with the design of one group pre-test post-test without class control. The findings study show that the validity EcoGreen textbook reaches an average of 95.34% means very worth use by teachers in teach care environment. Practicality EcoGreen textbook obtained an average percentage of 91.66% which means very good textbook practical used in learning. Effectiveness textbook obtain score Asymp Sig. (2-tailed) is 0.005 so p < 0.05 or 0.005 < 0.05 means the EcoGreen textbook is effective, no There is a difference between the two classes, and children actively follow the activity with enthusiasm.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the International Conference on Educational Science and Teacher Education (ICESTE 2025)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
24 November 2025
ISBN
978-2-38476-489-1
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-489-1_48How to use a DOI?
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© 2025 The Author(s)
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