Research in early childhood education for sustainability : international perspectives and provocations /
Sustainability is a global issue that urgently needs addressing, and for which the most serious consequences are for children and future generations. This insightful research text tackles one of the most significant contemporary issues of our times - the nexus between society and environment - and h...
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Foreword; An orientation to early childhood education for sustainability and research
- framing the text; CLUSTER 1 Ethics and values; 1 Examining early childhood education through the lens of education for sustainability: Revisioning rights; 2 Belonging, value conflicts and children's rights in learning for sustainability in early childhood; 3 Learning from the wisdom of elders; CLUSTER 2 Historical and sociocultural contexts; 4 Intercultural dialogues in early childhood education for sustainability: Embedding Indigenous perspectives5 Perspectives on early childhood environmental education in Japan: Rethinking for a sustainable society; 6 The role of early childhood education in building Singapore as a sustainable nation; 7 Norwegian perspectives on ECEfS: What has developed since the Brundtland Report?; CLUSTER 3 Curriculum and pedagogy; 8 Early childhood education for sustainability and natural outdoor playspaces: Researching change and theorizing about interfaces
- 9 An AuSSI early childhood adventure: Early childhood educators and researchers actioning change10 The Project Approach in early childhood education for sustainability: Exemplars from Korea and Australia; 11 Valuing agency in young children: Teachers rising to the challenge of sustainability in the Aotearoa New Zealand early childhood context; 12 I want to do real things: Explorations of children's active community participation; 13 Education for sustainability in Swedish preschools: Stepping forward or out-of-step?; 14 Innovative approaches to early childhood education for sustainability in England: Case studies from the field15 Early childhood education for sustainability in the United States of America; 16 The Arts and education for sustainability: Shaping student teachers' identities towards sustainability; 17 Science in preschool
- a foundation for education for sustainability? A view from Swedish preschool teacher education; 18 Early childhood education for sustainability in the United Kingdom: Generating professional capital; 19 Expanding worlds of early childhood education for sustainability: Looking back, looking forwardAppendix 1: Transnational dialogues participants; Appendix 2: Our chronology of selected key events, research and publications that chart the development of ECEfS; Index.