Researching Early Childhood Education for Sustainability; Challenging Assumptions and
Orthodoxies; First Edition Page 1 RESEARCHING EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION FOR …

Early childhood care and education services in Aotearoa New Zealand drew initially on the
Fröbelian model of the kindergarten or 'children's garden'. Later models such as the …

Research into pedagogical approaches used in early years' nature education, more
specifically European and UK forest schools, remains according to Leather,'undertheorised.' …

Engagement with the outdoors is a core element of New Zealand's heritage, identity and
culture. Taken together with our status as international curriculum leaders in early childhood …

Abstract 'Working theories' encompass children's theorising about the social and material
worlds. This article looks explicitly at power relations involved in pedagogy around children's …

This paper presents data from interviews undertaken with teachers and parents of children
who attend Australian bush kinders (kindergartens). The bush kinder approach is a recent …

Thesis synopsis There has been a growing awareness of the detrimental impact of human
activity on the environment in the Anthropocene (Crutzen, 2002; Eames & Cutter-Mackenzie …

The benefits of beginning education for sustainability (EfS) in early childhood education are
becoming widely known. There is growing concern in the western world that children's …

While the expansion of early years “bush kinder” programs in Australia is encouraging, the
assumption that children's connection with nature equates with education for sustainability …

THIS PAPER EXAMINES A definitive turning point in an early childhood research study
involving children's construction of secret places juxtaposed against the challenge of …