Researching Early Childhood Education for Sustainability: Challenging Assumptions and Orthodoxies

ISBN-13: 9781138332263 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 230 str.

Sue Elliott; Eva Arlemalm-Hagser; Julie Davis

Opis

This book captures the now burgeoning research field of early childhood education for sustainability (ECEfS) and comprises insights from an ever-widening and diverse pool of researchers, who are promoting, engaging and explaining the latest ECEfS research in the light of local, national and United Nations global policy directives.

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Cluster I Ethics and Values  1. Analysis of Historical and Contemporary Early Childhood Education Theories in the Anthropocene  2. From Autonomous Child to a Child Entangled within an Agentic World: Implications for Early Childhood Education for Sustainability  3. Unsettling Settlers’ Ideas of Land and Relearning Land with Indigenous Ways of Knowing in ECEfS  4. Alternative Worldviews on EDEfS: Reviewing and Re-examining Concepts around Human-nature Relationships, Images of Children, and Sustainability  Cluster II Historical and Sociocultural Contexts  5. Synopsis: An Update on Countries Previously Represented in the First Volume (Australia, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom, plus China)  6. ESD Coalition of Preschool and Municipality: A German Perspective on Early Childhood Education for Sustainability  7. Research in Early Childhood Education for Sustainability: Policies and Perspectives from India  8. Early Childhood Environmental Education in the USA: Baby Steps Toward a Sustainable Worldview  Cluster III Curriculum and Pedagogy  9. Early Childhood Teacher Education and Education for Sustainability: A Review of the Literature and Mapping of Courses  10. Physical Education and Natural Sciences in Norwegian Early Childhood Teacher Education: Mutually Supporting EfS?  11. Pedagogies for ECEfS in Bush Kinder Contexts: A Comparative Report on Two Australian Studies  12. Unruly Voices: Growing Climate Action Pedagogies with Trees and Children  13. A Project Narrative about Digital Tools, Children’s Participation and Sustainability in a Swedish Preschool  14. Stories of Disruption: Perspectives on the Use of Images to Prompt Children’s Action Taking for Sustainability  15. The Place of ECEfS in the Turkish Teacher Education System  16. Children’s Voices about Fish and Tadpoles in an Australian Pond Ecosystem: It’s All About Balancing and Belonging