A Snapshot from a Rural Area of Australia: Why and How Early Childhood Educators and Carers Take on Board Sustainable Practices

Autor/in	Amadio, Karren
Titel	A Snapshot from a Rural Area of Australia: Why and How Early Childhood Educators and Carers Take on Board Sustainable Practices
Quelle	In: Journal of the International Society for Teacher Education, 19 (2015) 2, S.15-21 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1029-5968
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Rural Schools; Rural Areas; Early Childhood Education; Preschool Teachers; Child Caregivers; Sustainability; Teacher Attitudes; Teaching Methods; Educational Practices; Case Studies; Low Income Groups; Indigenous Populations; Well Being; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Rural area; Rural areas; School; Schools; Ländlicher Raum; Schule; Schulen; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Erzieher; Erzieherin; Kindergärtnerin; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Caregiver; Caregivers; Carer; Child; Children; Kinderbetreuung; Nachhaltigkeit; Lehrerverhalten; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Bildungspraxis; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Sinti und Roma; Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden; Australien
Abstract	A report card on the wellbeing of young Australians does not paint a promising picture (ARACY, 2013). Some of the poor performance indicators from this report can be linked to early childhood education and sustainability, which forms the basis of this paper. A survey of recently graduated Certificate III and Diploma students will provide a snapshot of their feelings on sustainability. This will provide a point of view from a new generation of early childhood educators and carers in one rural area of Australia. The survey questions how these educators rate the need for sustainable practices and why. Will these educators follow their services program, or do they genuinely feel they have a role in the big picture of ensuring young people gain knowledge about sustainable practices? The second part of this paper will give an overview of a case study of sustainable practices being undertaken in a rural preschool that caters to Aboriginal and low income families. These practices will be linked to the 2009 Early Years Learning Framework that has the philosophy of children being, belonging, and becoming (DEEWR, 2009). The case study will demonstrate how sustainable practices can be linked to the wellbeing of children as well as providing them with hands-on learning opportunities and knowledge. This is done in the hope that these educational practices will contribute to the children's sense of well-being and thus contribute to their resilience in our volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	International Society for Teacher Education. Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, Niels Juelsgade 84, 8210 Aarhus N. Denmark; e-mail: isftecontact@gmail.com; Web site: http://isfte.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01