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Léa Marie Maison – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2024
Sustainability involves a temporal dimension connecting the past, the present and the future. This article explores the significance of time for sustainability education. It discusses how the understanding of this temporal dimension shapes humans' relationship with the world and affects the political engagement of the educator with sustainability…
Descriptors: Time, Sustainability, Social Change, Early Childhood Teachers
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Otterstad, Ann Merete; Waterhouse, Ann-Hege Lorvik – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2016
In this paper, we try to move beyond fixed narratives of child/ren and childhoods, a fixity that comes, in part, as a consequence of the adult/child dyad. We undertake a cutting together-apart of childhood photographs which allows us to explore the complex machinery that produces the categories of child/ren as human beings that are, variously,…
Descriptors: Photography, Children, Art, Childhood Attitudes
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Jørgensen, Kari-Anne – Environmental Education Research, 2016
The over-arching aim of this study was to elucidate and interpret topics that are relevant to how we understand children's experiences and creation of meaning in natural landscapes and places within these landscapes. Following two nature-kindergarten groups regularly over ten months, the data for this ethnographic study consist of constructed…
Descriptors: Natural Resources, Environmental Education, Consciousness Raising, Kindergarten
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Jones, Liz; Rossholt, Nina; Anastasiou, Thekla; Holmes, Rachel – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2016
This article considers what the repercussions are when the concept of "quality" is examined within the epistemological and ontological theoretical shifts that are afforded by post-humanism. In particular, Braidotti's configuring of thinking as "nomadic activity" and the need for "process ontology", together with…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Epistemology, Humanism, Educational Philosophy
van Beuzekom, Brigitte – OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2008
This paper reviews recent measurement work on User-Created Content (UCC) undertaken in OECD countries. It shows that UCC is emerging as a significant area of economic and social activity worthy of consideration for official measurement and discusses the implications for the OECD Model Survey on ICT Access and Use by Households and Individuals.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Technology, Access to Computers, Users (Information)