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Nurturing Nature and the Environment with Young Children: Children, Elders, Earth book cover

1st Edition

Nurturing Nature and the Environment with Young Children Children, Elders, Earth

Edited By Janice Kroeger, Casey Y. Myers, Katy Morgan Copyright 2019
170 Pages 41 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

170 Pages 41 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

170 Pages 41 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book, at the intersection of early childhood and reconceptualizing practice, looks at how practitioners, theorists, and teachers are supporting young children to care about the environment differently. Despite the current popularity of post-human perspectives, in social science more broadly and in early childhood studies more specifically, this is one of few to make visible... Read more

List of illustrations

List of contributors

Introduction: why nurture nature and the environment with young children?

Janice Kroeger, with Casey Y. Myers

Part I Worldly longing(s)

1. Uneasy assemblages of childearthbodies

Karen Malone

2. Renarrativizing our earth-centeredness: a perspective from Aotearoa (New Zealand)

Jenny Ritchie

3. Environmental justice in the shadow of the hyperobject: reflections from (not) saving the community garden

Casey Y. Myers

Part II Earth-indigeneity: place and pedagogies

4. Place sensitive pedagogy and the importance of traditional knowledges in Sámi early childhood institutions

Aslaugh Andreassen Becher, Laila Aleksandersen Nutti and Bushra Fatima Syed

5. Turkana indigenous knowledge as narrated by Turkana Elders: implications for early childhood curriculum in pastoralist communities in Kenya

John T. Ng’asike 　

6. The call to nature permaculture project

Lola Rembekova and Solomon Amuzu

7. This is my dad and he’s a scrapper: curriculum, economics and clout in kindergarten

Jonothan Shaw and Katy Morgan

8. Eating for ecoliteracy: the social praxis of sustainability at a residential environmental education center

Kate Albing

Part III Sustainable futures: new terrestrial collectives

9. Nature can be dead and alive: Pachysandra is a bad guy

Adonia Porto

10. Imagine sustainable futures: experimental encounters between young children and vibrant recycled matter

Nina Odegard

11. Gardening with children and pre-service teachers: considering terrestrialcollective(s) in action

Janice Kroeger, Terri Cardy, Abigail E. Recker, Lynn Gregor, Aubrey Ryan, Anna Beckwith and Jacob Dunwiddie　

Biography

Janice Kroeger is Graduate Coordinator and Associate Professor of Early Childhood and Teaching at Kent State University, USA.

Casey Y. Myers is Coordinator of Studio & Research Arts and Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education at Kent State University, USA.

Katy Morgan is a doctoral candidate in social studies and curriculum and instruction at Kent State University, USA.

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