Prepared Environment as the Key Success Factor in Building Clean and Healthy Habit in Early Childhood Education

Prepared environment fosters children’s independence according to their developmental stage. Maria Montessori’s idea related to the preparation of learning environment is everything that interacts or relates to students will facilitate and maximize their independence of learning and exploration of knowledge. This research aims to create a model for building clean and healthy habit formation, and to find out the most significant factors to influence a habit. The research method used were mixed method: qualitative method and quantitative method. Qualitative method was used in order to get the empirical data using interview and observation to all stakeholders, and quantitative method was used in order to examine the model using SEM Analysis. The result is that prepared environment encourages love of learning, independence, exploration and experiments among children. Prepared environment is an environment that prepares students to think and act freely, remains in structure and a certain setting, an environment that is highly committed to beauty and decency, an environment that is socially friendly and stimulates intellectual abilities are the automatic entry points in forming healthy habits and innovative culture through the mediation of love of learning, independence, experiment and exploration variables.