The Mission of Early Childhood Education in the Anthropocene
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22048060 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lili-Ann Wolff (0000-0002-2918-4064, University of Helsinki, corresponding author), Tuula H Skarstein (0000-0002-1673-1129, University of Stavanger), Frode Skarstein (0000-0002-6311-9469, University of Stavanger) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 27 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-23 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Education Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2227-7102 • E-ISSN: 2227-7102 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/educsci10020027 |
| OpenAlex | W3002149280 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 78 |
During the last century, the human way of life has begun to transgress many of the Earth’s biophysical boundaries in an alarming way. The consequences of this are more dramatic and long lasting than ever before. Many researchers even argue that humanity has created a new geological epoch, which they call Anthropocene. Education, even in early childhood (EC), is often presented as a remedy for these complex problems. Yet, how can anyone prepare young children to deal with such tremendous changes? The primary aim of our study is to define and outline what the mission of early childhood education (ECE) might be in the epoch of the Anthropocene. Through a comprehensive review of the literature, we have tried to find answers about how the Anthropocene could be addressed in ECE. We have searched for answers in the natural science literature, policy documents, educational research articles and philosophy, and discuss the various standpoints we have identified. We argue that the Anthropocene demands a new, more authentic education; a change towards a more holistic, transformative, sustainability-oriented approach. At the same time, children, as always, have a right to a safe, positive and encouraging childhood
Anthropocene · Early childhood education · Earth system science · Education for sustainable development · Environmental ethics · Humanity · Pedagogy · Political science · Sociology · Sustainability · Sustainable development · Transformative learning · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Environmental Education and Sustainability · History · Law · Philosophy · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics · Ecology
Educação climática no museu
Applying environmental attitudes of pre-service preschool teachers scale and its subscales to investigate the environmental attitudes of pre-service preschool teachers using the Rasch psychometric approach
Strengthening digital literacy in Indonesia
Transformation toward sustainability in Finnish teacher education policy
Can Sustainable Schools Influence Environmental Consciousness and Behavior in Early Childhood? The Perspectives of Early Childhood Educators
A review of research on the Anthropocene in early childhood education
Children’s critical thinking skills
Finnish Ecec personnel’s views on the challenging nature of promoting social justice
Early childhood educators’ understanding of education for sustainable development
Hope, care, action, and relations - Nordic early childhood education and care teacher students describing what drives their future work with sustainability
Connecting gender equality with sustainability in early childhood
Pre-school teaching for creative processes in education for sustainable development – invisible animal traces, purple hands, and an elk container
Multiple Vulnerabilisierungen in multispecies-Welten. Überlegungen zu relationalen Verletzlichkeiten aus der qualitativen Kindheitsforschung
Rethinking children’s rights in relation to planetary rights
Enhancing biodiversity literacy in early learners
Stones, situated writing and education
Centering childhood(s) in the Anthropocene
The Human Planet
Global Change and the Earth System
Ecology, Community and Lifestyle
Immanuel Kant
Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills
Eco‐anxiety, Tragedy, and Hope
Biological annihilation via the ongoing sixth mass extinction signaled by vertebrate population losses and declines
Childhood Experiences Associated with Care for the Natural World
Nature and the Life Course
The “Anthropocene”
The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene
Curious children and knowledgeable adults – early childhood student-teachers’ species identification skills and their views on the importance of species knowledge
Posthumanist Performativity
Education for sustainable development in early childhood education
Rethinking climate communications and the “psychological climate paradox”
Stories for living on a damaged planet
Children who carry stones in their pockets
Revealing the research ‘hole’ of early childhood education for sustainability
Beyond stewardship
Education for the Environment
Whole school approaches to education for sustainable development
An Overview of Significant Influences and Formative Experiences on the Development of Adults’ Environmental Awareness in Nine Countries
Education for sustainability (EfS)
Children in nature
Not So Natural an Alliance? Degrowth and Environmental Justice Movements in the Global South
Reconnecting to the Biosphere
Learning with children, ants, and worms in the Anthropocene
Navigating alternative framings of human-environment interactions
Staying with the trouble for multispecies environmental justice
In a broken world
Anthropocene futures
Planetary Boundaries
Multiple dichotomies of the Anthropocene
An Historian's Critique of Sustainability
Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene
| Citations per year | 3.4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |