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Monitoring of Education for Sustainable Development in Germany -- Insights from Early Childhood Education, School and Higher Education
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Singer-Brodowski, Mandy; Brock, Antje; Etzkorn, Nadine; Otte, Insa – Environmental Education Research, 2019
In Germany, the implementation of the UNESCO Global Action Programme (GAP) on Education for sustainable development (ESD) 2015-2019 aims to implement ESD more profoundly within the structures of Germany's educational system. In this context, a national monitoring has been set up in order to analyze the extent and quality of ESD implementation in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Environmental Education, Sustainable Development, Early Childhood Education
Weather Worlding: Learning with the Elements in Early Childhood
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Rooney, Tonya – Environmental Education Research, 2018
In the context of challenges posed by climate change, this paper draws attention to the significance of children's relationship with weather. The paper contends that it is time to engage more closely with children's weather relations when developing and experimenting with new environmental pedagogies. Furthermore, it is argued that there is a need…
Descriptors: Climate, Change, Environmental Education, Teaching Methods
Beyond Stewardship: Common World Pedagogies for the Anthropocene
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Taylor, Affrica – Environmental Education Research, 2017
Interdisciplinary Anthropocene debates are prompting calls for a paradigm shift in thinking about what it means to be human and about our place and agency in the world. Within environmental education, sustainability remains centre stage and oddly disconnected from these Anthropocene debates. Framed by humanist principles, most sustainability…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Sustainability, Humanism, Change Agents
"Staying with the Trouble" in Child-Insect-Educator Common Worlds
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Nxumalo, Fikile; Pacini-Ketchabaw, Veronica – Environmental Education Research, 2017
Classroom pet programs have become extremely popular in urban North American early childhood classrooms. This article challenges anthropocentric child-pet pedagogies by proposing common world pedagogies of "staying with the trouble." Drawing from a common world multispecies ethnography in one early childhood centre, the authors engage…
Descriptors: Urban Areas, Ethics, Animals, Teaching Methods
Bringing the Jellyfish Home: Environmental Consciousness and "Sense of Wonder" in Young Children's Encounters with Natural Landscapes and Places
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Jørgensen, Kari-Anne – Environmental Education Research, 2016
The over-arching aim of this study was to elucidate and interpret topics that are relevant to how we understand children's experiences and creation of meaning in natural landscapes and places within these landscapes. Following two nature-kindergarten groups regularly over ten months, the data for this ethnographic study consist of constructed…
Descriptors: Natural Resources, Environmental Education, Consciousness Raising, Kindergarten
The Bubble-Wrap Generation: Children Growing Up in Walled Gardens
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Malone, Karen – Environmental Education Research, 2007
Children in middle class Australia, and many western countries around the world experience restricted opportunities to engage in free play in their neighbourhood streets and parks. The impact of this has been a drastic decrease in children's independent mobility and environmental play. Recent research has focused on the physical environment of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle Class, Physical Environment, Play