Ethics and Pedagogy at the Heart of Early Childhood Education for Sustainability

Robinson, Lesley; Vaealiki, Sue

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“…Ann Farrell, in her chapter, also enhances the need for right-based guidelines such as Early Childhood Australia Code of Ethics. Regardless of the (non)existence of professional standards that include children's rights, teachers' professional ethics presuppose their obligation to assume the role of promoter and protector of children's rights (Robinson and Vaealiki 2015).…”

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Broadening the Rights of Children in the Anthropocene

Jevtić

Sadownik

Engdahl

2021

Young Children in the World and Their Rights

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This concluding chapter analyses the different chapters against the times we are living in and the overarching question of what the challenges are for the children of the world today. Initially, we introduce Julie Davis' theoretical model of five dimensions of rights that we will use to structure the analysis and for pointing at possible challenges and answers. Then we present our analysis in three sections, following the three parts of the book, policy, children's perspective, and education, and link the analysis to some new research and descriptions of the conditions children are living under today, including some reflections around the COVID-19 pandemic. In the final section of this book, we summarize the task in front of all of us, by giving some recommendations and challenges for early childhood education about the future for the children in the world, and for the world.

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Broadening the Rights of Children in the Anthropocene

Jevtić

Sadownik

Engdahl

2021

Young Children in the World and Their Rights

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“…Children are enmeshed with the world around them and pedagogies need to provide access to ideas and ways of learning to help children navigate and ethically respond to the complexities of the world (Nxumalo, 2018). Like others (Robinson & Vaealiki, 2010), I foresee children and educators involved in contextualized issues related to sustainability that have personal meaning and relevancy, rather than being burdened with solving all of the world's environmental issues. But this shift does require new ways of thinking about children, education, and teaching.…”

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“…By adapting playhouses with sustainable components (e.g., installing solar panels), Boyd found ways of combining play-based pedagogies with sustainability concepts, promoting both the children and educators' understandings and actions. Despite these promising insights, shifts toward more critical and transformative pedagogies that foster opportunities to explore sustainability issues with young children remain vital (Robinson & Vaealiki, 2010).…”

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The Blue Car in the Forest: Exploring Children’s Experiences of Sustainability in a Canadian Forest

Harwood

2019

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An abandoned blue car from 1958 is a central figure of the qualitative exploration of sustainability pedagogies within a Canadian nature school. The mystery of the car and its entanglement within a densely-forested area where the preschool children play and learn is provocative. As part of a larger ethnographic case study of the nature school, eight young children (3-5-year-olds) and their two nature teachers’ critical engagement with the car is examined over the course of a year. The research approach for the data collection and analysis included photos, videos, participant-observations, educator journals, and children’s oral and written expressions of their ideas related to the project and sustainability. This small scale study offers a glimpse into the possibilities that emerge when we include children’s thinking, decisions, and actions within the more-than-human world to foster sustainability.

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Loving The World: Place Attachment and Environment in Pastoral Theology

Helsel

2018

Journal of Pastoral Theology

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Ethics and Pedagogy at the Heart of Early Childhood Education for Sustainability

Cited by 5 publications

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Broadening the Rights of Children in the Anthropocene

Broadening the Rights of Children in the Anthropocene

The Blue Car in the Forest: Exploring Children’s Experiences of Sustainability in a Canadian Forest

Loving The World: Place Attachment and Environment in Pastoral Theology

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