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Developing a Whole (Pre)school Approach to Sustainability: Insights from Global Citizenship and Early Childhood Education Across Nordic Countries
Högskolan Dalarna, Pedagogiskt arbete.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4937-8413
Gothenburg University.
Karlstad University.
2024 (English)In: Whole School Approaches to Sustainability: Education Renewal in Times of Distress / [ed] Arjen E. J. Wals, Birgitte Bjønness, Astrid Sinnes & Ingrid Eikeland, Cham: Springer Nature , 2024, 1, p. 167-175Chapter in book (Refereed)
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Early childhood education aims to support children to develop cognitive, social, and motor skills, alongside values and ethics central to sustainability. From a Nordic perspective, this chapter reflects on how global citizenship education in preschool can illuminate possibilities and barriers to developing a whole school approach to sustainability. A review of Nordic policy and research identified four perspectives rooted in the global citizenship tradition that can support a whole school approach to sustainability: The greening of the whole preschool; The whole child’s learning; Wholeness in preschool teaching; and Thematic approach as a perspective on a whole preschool. We propose that efforts to implement a whole school approach to sustainability could be aligned with these perspectives. Nonetheless, Nordic preschools currently lack robust engagement with society—a perspective that requires further cultivation. To advance, empirical studies are needed to explore how a whole school approach to sustainability can be developed and implemented within preschool education.

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Cham: Springer Nature , 2024, 1. p. 167-175
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Sustainable Development Goals Series, ISSN 2523-3084, E-ISSN 2523-3092
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-73003DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-56172-6Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85200502286ISBN: 9783031561719 (print)ISBN: 9783031561740 (print)ISBN: 9783031561726 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mdh-73003DiVA, id: diva2:1989472
Available from: 2025-08-16 Created: 2025-08-16 Last updated: 2025-10-10Bibliographically approved

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