Early Childhood Education for Sustainability: Exploring the Barriers to Implementation and Arguing for a Transformative Approach

Early childhood education for sustainability represents the confluence of two globally significant fields of research; early childhood education and education for sustainability. However, this hybrid field has yet to make the significant steps toward tackling the sustainability challenges faced by t...

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Main Author: Bailey, Claire
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2017
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/48012/
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description Early childhood education for sustainability represents the confluence of two globally significant fields of research; early childhood education and education for sustainability. However, this hybrid field has yet to make the significant steps toward tackling the sustainability challenges faced by the world that UN institutions had claimed it would. This paper identifies and explores the reasons why implementation has been so difficult. Through this, it then offers recommendations as to what sort of approach would succeed, identifying a transformative education paradigm as being most appropriate.
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spelling nottingham-480122017-11-09T17:21:07Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/48012/ Early Childhood Education for Sustainability: Exploring the Barriers to Implementation and Arguing for a Transformative Approach Bailey, Claire Early childhood education for sustainability represents the confluence of two globally significant fields of research; early childhood education and education for sustainability. However, this hybrid field has yet to make the significant steps toward tackling the sustainability challenges faced by the world that UN institutions had claimed it would. This paper identifies and explores the reasons why implementation has been so difficult. Through this, it then offers recommendations as to what sort of approach would succeed, identifying a transformative education paradigm as being most appropriate. 2017-07 Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/48012/1/Bailey_Claire_Dissertation_Hood.pdf Bailey, Claire (2017) Early Childhood Education for Sustainability: Exploring the Barriers to Implementation and Arguing for a Transformative Approach. [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)]
spellingShingle Bailey, Claire
Early Childhood Education for Sustainability: Exploring the Barriers to Implementation and Arguing for a Transformative Approach
title Early Childhood Education for Sustainability: Exploring the Barriers to Implementation and Arguing for a Transformative Approach
title_full Early Childhood Education for Sustainability: Exploring the Barriers to Implementation and Arguing for a Transformative Approach
title_fullStr Early Childhood Education for Sustainability: Exploring the Barriers to Implementation and Arguing for a Transformative Approach
title_full_unstemmed Early Childhood Education for Sustainability: Exploring the Barriers to Implementation and Arguing for a Transformative Approach
title_short Early Childhood Education for Sustainability: Exploring the Barriers to Implementation and Arguing for a Transformative Approach
title_sort early childhood education for sustainability: exploring the barriers to implementation and arguing for a transformative approach
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/48012/