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, eBook

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

Preface1. Children's Place in Sustainability Education2. Sustainability Education in Practice3. A Coastal Classroom Without Walls4. Children's Place Learning Maps5. Place-Making by Design6. Emergent Literacies in 'the Land of Do Anything You Want'7. In the Kitchen Garden8. Separation and Connection: Children Negotiating Difference9. 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
Water in a Dry Land: Place-Learning Through Art and Story
.

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.