Nurturing Nature and the Environment with Young Children (eBook, PDF)

Children, Elders, Earth
Redaktion: Kroeger, Janice; Morgan, Katy; Myers, Casey Y.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book responds to a growing interest among early childhood professionals and scholars for more nature and sustainability focused programs. Doing so rewards the reader with opportunities to critically reflect on their own practice and explore new pedagogical pathways. It will be essential reading for practitioners and scholars alike.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429555220
• Artikelnr.: 56843282

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: why nurture nature and the environment with young children?
Part I Worldly longing(s) 1. Uneasy assemblages of childearthbodies 2.
Renarrativizing our earth-centeredness: a perspective from Aotearoa (New
Zealand) 3. Environmental justice in the shadow of the hyperobject:
reflections from (not) saving the community garden Part II
Earth-indigeneity: place and pedagogies 4. Place sensitive pedagogy and the
importance of traditional knowledges in Sámi early childhood institutions
5. Turkana indigenous knowledge as narrated by Turkana Elders: implications
for early childhood curriculum in pastoralist communities in Kenya 6. The
call to nature permaculture project 7. This is my dad and he's a scrapper:
curriculum, economics and clout in kindergarten 8. Eating for ecoliteracy:
the social praxis of sustainability at a residential environmental
education center Part III Sustainable futures: new terrestrial collectives
9. Nature can be dead and alive: Pachysandra is a bad guy 10. Imagine
sustainable futures: experimental encounters between young children and
vibrant recycled matter 11. Gardening with children and pre-service
teachers: considering terrestrialcollective(s) in action