Here you can find some readings, videos, and other resources that we will read together and/or that you can look at to support your own learning about environmental education, nature and children, and the Anthropocene.
Please submit your own resources if you'd like to share them with others!
Links:
Project Zero:
Thinking Routine: Circle of Viewpoints
A Pedagogy of Play: Supporting playful learning in classrooms and schools (pdf text available here in English)
Books:
Earth Ed: Rethinking Education on a Changing Planet, Erik Assadourian (ed.) (available in Resource Folder)
Children, Citizenship, and Environment, Bronwyn Hayward
Educating for the Anthropocene, Peter Sutoris
Early Childhood Education and Care for a Shared Sustainable World, Sandra Smidt
Beyond Ecophobia, David Sobel
Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet, Thich Naht Hahn
Reconfiguring the Natures of Childhood, Affrica Taylor
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene, Donna J. Haraway
Deviate, Beau Lotto
Teach for Climate Justice: A Vision for Transforming Education, Tom Roderick
Articles:
Bufalino, G. & D'Aprile, G. (2021). On the educator as researcher: implicit knowledge and professional epistemologies. 17. 63-73. 10.19241/lll.v17i38.612.
Baker, M. & Ryan, J. (2021). Playful provocations and playful mindsets: teacher learning and identity shifts through playful participatory research. International Journal of Play, DOI: 10.1080/21594937.2021.1878770
Becker, J. (2020). The Importance of Imagination in Times of Climate Crisis. On Eco-Age. Retrieved from https://eco-age.com/resources/importance-imagination-times-climate-crisis/
Coreia, R.A. (2023). Acknowledging and understanding the contributions of nature to human sense of time. People and Nature, 6(2): 358-366. DOI: 10.1002/pan3.10601
Dockx, Y., Bijnens, E. M., Luyten, L., Peusens, M., Provost, E., Rasking, L., Sleurs, H., Hogervorst, J., Plusquin, M., Casas, L., & Nawrot, T. S. (2022). Early life exposure to residential green space impacts cognitive functioning in children aged 4 to 6 years. Environment international, 161, 107094. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2022.107094
Timefulness: A Geologist’s Story—Interview with Marcia Bjornerud, By Marcia Bjornerud, Anja Katina Claus (2020)