Children, Place and Sustainability

Children, Place and Sustainability
Author: Margaret Somerville
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2016-04-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137408502

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Through focusing on children's sustainability learning this book examines how school education can address the current environmental problems. It explores children's responses in literacy and language, arts-based approaches, and indigenous studies as well as scientific pedagogies to provide a unique insight into how children learn.

Children, Place and Sustainability

Children, Place and Sustainability
Author: Margaret Somerville
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2016-04-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137408502

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Through focusing on children's sustainability learning this book examines how school education can address the current environmental problems. It explores children's responses in literacy and language, arts-based approaches, and indigenous studies as well as scientific pedagogies to provide a unique insight into how children learn.

Sustainability and Communities of Place

Sustainability and Communities of Place
Author: Carl A. Maida
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2007-04-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0857452843

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The concept of sustainability holds that the social, economic, and environmental factors within human communities must be viewed interactively and systematically. Sustainable development cannot be understood apart from a community, its ethos, and ways of life. Although broadly conceived, the pursuit of sustainable development is a local practice because every community has different needs and quality of life concerns. Within this framework, contributors representing the disciplines of anthropology, sociology, geography, economics, law, public policy, architecture, and urban studies explore sustainability in communities in the Pacific, Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Europe, and North America. Contributors: Janet E. Benson, Karla Caser, Snjezana Colic, Angela Ferreira, Johanna Gibson, Krista Harper, Paulo Lana, Barbara Yablon Maida, Carl A. Maida, Kenneth A. Meter, Dario Novellino, Deborah Pellow, Claude Raynaut, Thomas F. Thornton, Richard Westra, Magda Zanoni

Childhood and Nature

Childhood and Nature
Author: David Sobel
Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2008
Genre: Education
ISBN: 157110741X

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Presents a collection of essays combining anecdotal and theoretical insights into environmental ethics and human ecology to help foster environmentally responsible students.

A Child's Place

A Child's Place
Author: G. Thompson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 21
Release: 2004
Genre: Public spaces
ISBN:

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Early Childhood Education and Care for Sustainability

Early Childhood Education and Care for Sustainability
Author: Valerie Huggins
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2017-11-10
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1315295830

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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.

Children's Special Places

Children's Special Places
Author: David Sobel
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2002
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780814330265

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An examination of the secret world of children that shows how important special places are to a child's development.

Researching Early Childhood Education for Sustainability

Researching Early Childhood Education for Sustainability
Author: Sue Elliott
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2020-04-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0429822677

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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. With the increasing urgency of global climate disruptions, resource depletions, and biodiversity losses alongside greater human dislocation, the international scope of research and theory in this book provides a comprehensive guide to the role of sustainability in early childhood education, at a time when it is needed more than ever. Elliott, Ärlemalm-Hagsér, and Davis have brought together a collection of studies that offer new insights and approaches to ECEfS which challenge dominant narratives surrounding early childhood education and sustainability, including topics such as: how diverse worldviews and cultures challenge perceptions of sustainability; how bold national early education policies and urgent shifts in teacher education are imperative for driving transformative practices; and, how ECEfS curriculum and pedagogy can be incorporated successfully into early years settings. This book will both inspire researchers and more deeply enable early years’ educators to practise sustainability with children, and so will be of great interest to scholars, lecturers, and researchers, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students, across the increasingly intersecting fields of sustainability and early childhood education.

Children, Place and Identity

Children, Place and Identity
Author: Jonathan Scourfield
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2006-09-27
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1134266324

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In this, the first sociology book to consider the important issue of how children identify with place and nation, the authors use original research and international case studies to explore this topic in depth. The book is rooted in original qualitative research the authors conducted with a diverse sample of children (aged eight to eleven) across Wales, but this data is also located in the context of existing international research on place identity. The book features analysis of lively exchanges between children on their local, national and global identities, politics, language and race. It engages with important social and political questions such as whether cultural distinctiveness can be preserved in a context of globalization, whether we are destined to passively receive dominant representations of the nation or can creatively construct our own versions; and whether national identities are necessarily exclusive. Most importantly, the book focuses on what local and national identities mean to children in an era of cultural and economic globalization. Including material on racialization, language, politics, class and gender, Children, Place and Identity will be a valuable resource to students and researchers of childhood studies and the sociology of childhood.