Early Childhood Education and Care for Sustainability: International Perspectives

Description

This innovative and timely book explores issues and concerns surrounding Education for Sustainable Development in early childhood, providing a range of perspectives on how we can live and promote more healthy, just and sustainable lives. It examines the professional responsibility of Early Years practitioners to embed sustainability into their everyday practice and to ensure that young children are acquiring the knowledge and skills they need to become effective agents of change, committed problem-solvers and system-thinkers. Bringing together international examples of best practice, drawing on cutting-edge research, and providing an array of practical examples, chapters focus on issues such as: the historical context of Early Education for Sustainability complexities and challenges involved in implementing sustainable approaches encouraging children to contribute to an enabling society adopting environmentally sustainable approaches in Early Years settings the future of sustainability in Early Years education. This book offers essential support to Early Years educators, practitioners and students who are key players in shaping the fundamental attitudes and beliefs of our planet's future citizens, enabling them to assume their responsibilities, now and in the future, in regard to environmental, social and economic sustainability.

Get the book

Amazon.com

Search the book

eBay.com

Search the book

Other editions

• 

  Early Childhood Education and Care for Sustainability: International Perspectives

  • 2017-11-10
  • 166 pages
  • Ebook
  • Routledge

Similar books

• 

  Programming and Planning in Early Childhood Settings

  By Leonie Arthur, Bronwyn Beecher, Elizabeth Death

  79, pp. 34–41. Bourdieu, P 1990, The Logic of Practice, Polity Press,1990 English trans. by R Nice, Cambridge. Brennan, D, Cass, B, Flaxman, S, Hill, T, Jenkins, B, McHugh, M, Purcal, C & Valentine, K2013, ...

• 

  Everyday Mathematics: Grade Pre-K

  By University of Chicago. School Mathematics Project

  Everyday Mathematics: Grade Pre-K

• 

  Revel for Fundamentals of Early Childhood Education -- Access Card Package

  By George S. Morrison

  Thoroughly revised and updated throughout, the 9th Edition offers a contemporary, accessible, and user-friendly approach to all of the major topics, programs, and issues at the forefront of early childhood education today. 0135201403 / ...

• 

  Getting It Right for Young Children from Diverse Backgrounds: Applying Research to Improve Practice with a Focus on Dual Language...

  By Linda Espinosa

  Note: This is the bound book only and does not include access to the Enhanced Pearson eText.

• 

  Professional, Ethical and Legal Issues in Early Childhood

  By Linda Newman, Lois Pollnitz, Denise Fraser

  Professional, Ethical and Legal Issues in Early Childhood

• 

  Early Childhood Education Today

  By George S. Morrison

  Family Service Centers Head Start has awarded grants to forty - one programs in order to demonstrate ways its programs can work with other community agencies and organizations to deal effectively with the problems of substance abuse ...

• 

  Foundations of Early Childhood Education: Teaching Three-, Four-, and Five-year-old Children

  By Bernard Spodek, Olivia N. Saracho, Michael D. Davis

  Young Children , 40 ( 2 ) , 17 . JOAN , B. , E. HAINES , AND L. GERBER ( 1984 ) . Leading young children to music . Columbus , OH : Merrill . LABAN , R. ( 1971 ) . The mastery of movement . London : Macdonald and Evans . LASKY ...

• 

  World Music Pedagogy

  By Karen Howard, Jamey Kelley, Patricia Shehan Campbell

  "'The Routledge World Music Pedagogy Series' encompasses principal cross-disciplinary issues in music, education, and culture in six volumes, detailing theoretical and practical aspects of World Music Pedagogy in ways that contribute to the ...

• 

  An Empirical Approach to Preparing Children for Starting School: Exploring the Relationships Between Parents, Practitioners and Teachers

  By Karen Wickett

  "This book will draw upon the findings of empirical research, which explored parents', ECEC practitioners' and teachers' beliefs about the nature of children's school readiness and the relationships between them as they prepared and ...

• 

  Friendship: A Hands-on Unit

  By Karen M. Breitbart

  In this wordless story , a small mouse searches for a friend . First Day of School by Helen Oxenbury ( Dial , 1983 ) . A little girl , who is not looking forward to her first day of school , makes friends with another new girl .