Creative Arts-Based Pedagogies in Early Childhood Education for Sustainability (EfS): Challenges and Possibilities

Autor/in	Ward, Kumara S.
Titel	Creative Arts-Based Pedagogies in Early Childhood Education for Sustainability (EfS): Challenges and Possibilities
Quelle	In: Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 29 (2013) 2, S.165-181 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0814-0626
DOI	10.1017/aee.2014.4
Schlagwörter	Creative Teaching; Early Childhood Education; Sustainability; Sustainable Development; Environmental Education; Art Activities; Knowledge Level; Experiential Learning; Curriculum Development; Natural Resources + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Creative thinking; Teaching; Kreatives Denken; Unterricht; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Nachhaltigkeit; Nachhaltige Entwicklung; Umweltbildung; Umwelterziehung; Umweltpädagogik; Künstlerische Tätigkeit; Wissensbasis; Experiental learning; Erfahrungsorientiertes Lernen; Curriculum; Development; Curriculumentwicklung; Lehrplan; Entwicklung; Natural Ressource; Natürliche Ressource
Abstract	This article showcases a creative approach to early childhood education for sustainability (ECEfS). It reports on the author's doctoral research program, which examined the effectiveness of arts-based pedagogies for exploring and understanding the natural world in an early childhood education program. Motivated by their existing commitment to education for sustainability (EfS), the participating educators used the arts for further exploration and understanding of the natural world in teaching and learning. They explored the role of the arts in knowledge production and embodied experience, and reinterpreted and built on their own funds of knowledge about their environment. The result was meaningful curriculum steeped in content about the natural environments that were local to the children and their educators. The findings further signify the challenges educators needed to overcome in order to intensify their connection with their own local environments, and the effect that this enhanced connection had on their capacity to reflect local natural environments in their programs with the children. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10