1st Edition

Early Childhood Education and Care for a Shared Sustainable World People, Planet and Profits

By Sandra Smidt Copyright 2019
126 Pages
by Routledge

126 Pages
by Routledge

126 Pages
by Routledge

Making an important contribution to the growing body of literature addressing the issue of sustainability in the Early Years, Sandra Smidt provides a highly accessible text examining the philosophical, political, economic, social and cultural aspects of sustainability impacting on very young children today. Drawing on current and global research, Smidt presents case studies and... Read more

Introduction to the book

The layperson’s guide to acronyms and icons

Chapter 1: Defining sustainable development

Chapter 2: The questioning child: the listening teacher

Chapter 3: The child as citizen

Chapter 4: Democracy in early childhood care and education

Chapter 5: The OMEP World Project

Chapter 6: A pedagogy for sustainability

Chapter 7: The case for care and education together

Chapter 8: Cultural considerations

Chapter 9: Other ways of thinking

Chapter 10: Professionalism

Chapter 11: Building hope.

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Sandra Smidt is a writer in early years education.