Book chapter
Missing voices: Children’s understandings of sustainability topics and the 4C Pedagogical Framework
Young Children and the Environment: early education for sustainability, pp.71-90
Cambridge University Press, 3rd
05/01/2024
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Abstract
In this chapter, these four co-authors emphasise the importance of sustainability for the future of people and planet, given that the case for all human and non-human inhabitants has never been clearer. Through an account of Mia’s doctoral study, they challenge readers to provide young children with meaningful opportunities to participate in conversations about the Earth’s future. More importantly, they argue for children’s concerns to be heard and their ideas acted upon. To this end, the chapter offers research-based strategies for early years educators, especially in the first years of schooling, given that the research was conducted with children aged from 6 to 8 years. They developed the 4C Pedagogical Framework for transformational early childhood education for sustainability as a valuable tool for this purpose.
Details
- Title
- Missing voices: Children’s understandings of sustainability topics and the 4C Pedagogical Framework
- Creators
- Mia Christensen - Queensland University of TechnologyLyndal O'GormanKerryann WalshJulie M Davis - Queensland University of Technology
- Contributors
- Julie M Davis (Editor of compilation) - Queensland University of TechnologySue Elliott (Editor of compilation) - University of New England
- Publication Details
- Young Children and the Environment: early education for sustainability, pp.71-90
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press; Cambridge, UK
- Edition
- 3rd
- Identifiers
- 991013372728402368
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter