Rethinking Environmental Education in a Climate Change Era

Weather Learning in Early Childhood
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-367-71344-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 168 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 413 g

Reihe: Contesting Early Childhood

As the impact of climate change has become harder to ignore, it has become increasingly evident that children will inherit futures where climate challenges require new ways of thinking about how humans can live better with the world. This book re-situates weather in early childhood education, examining people as inherently a part of and affected by nature, and challenges the positioning of humans at the centre of progress and decision-making.

Exploring the ways children can learn with weather, this book for researchers and advanced students, works with the pedagogical potential in children’s relations with weather as a vital way of connecting with and responding to wider climate concerns.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rooney, Tonya

Blaise, Mindy

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: A Weather Learning Project. 1. Introduction. 2. Young children and environmental education. Part 2: Methods - Thinking, moving and writing with weather. 3. Thinking with weather. 4. Walking with weather. 5. Writing small weather stories. Part 3: Relations - Weathering with more-than-human worlds. 6. Bodies, atmospheres and affects. 7. Multi-species weather encounters. 8. Earth and deep weather times. Part 4: Responses – Learning and speculating in a climate change era. 9. Weather learning. 10. Conclusion: An invitation to weather together.

Über Autor(innen)

Tonya Rooney is a Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood and Environmental Education at the Australian Catholic University. She is member of the Common Worlds Research Collective.

Mindy Blaise is a Vice Chancellor’s Professorial Research Fellow and Co-Director of the Centre for People, Place, and Planet, at Edith Cowan University, Western Australia. She is a co-founder of the Common Worlds Research Collective and #FEAS Feminist Educators Against Sexism.