Somerville / Green Children, Place and Sustainability

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-40850-1
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 200 Seiten

Reihe: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection

Through focusing on children's sustainability learning this book examines how school education can address the current environmental problems. It explores children's responses in literacy and language, arts-based approaches, and indigenous studies as well as scientific pedagogies to provide a unique insight into how children learn.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Somerville, Margaret

Green, Monica

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

1. Children's Place in Sustainability Education

2. Sustainability Education in Practice

3. A Coastal Classroom Without Walls

4. Children's Place Learning Maps

5. Place-Making by Design

6. Emergent Literacies in 'the Land of Do Anything You Want'

7. In the Kitchen Garden

8. Separation and Connection: Children Negotiating Difference

9. Children, Place and Sustainability

Über Autor(innen)

Margaret Somerville is Director Centre for Educational Research at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. Her research interests include creative and alternative approaches to research and writing in relation to planetary sustainability. Previous publications include .

Monica Green is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at Federation University Australia. Her teaching and research interests are focused on place-based sustainability education. She has researched sustainability curriculum frameworks and pedagogies in primary school settings, emphasising the pedagogical capacity of school grounds, food gardens and local places.