This innovative book explores the issues and concerns about Education for Sustainable Development in early childhood providing a range of perspectives on how we can live more healthy just and sustainable lives. It examines the professional responsibility of early years educators to embed sustainability into everyday practice to ensure children are given the knowledge and skills to be agents of change, problem solvers and system thinkers. Bringing together international examples of best practice and cutting-edge research, it offers essential support for early years educators who are key...

In recent decades, there has been many attempts to describe, explore, and explain the new ‘post-modern’ capitalism of the twenty-first century. In this context, this book looks at one of the most exciting strands of this research in the late twentieth century: the flexible specialisation research programme (FSRP).

Drawing on the history of ideas, discourse, and literature on capitalism of the last four decades, this book shows that although ‘flexible specialisation’ anticipated some of the ways in which capitalism was being transformed in the late twentieth century, they...