Children, Place and Sustainability
Through focusing on children's sustainability learning this book examines how school education can address the current environmental problems. It explores children's responses in literacy and language, arts-based approaches, and indigenous studies as well
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Children, Place and Sustainability Margaret Somerville University of Western Sydney, Australia
Monica Green Federation University Australia, Australia
© Margaret Somerville and Monica Green 2015 Foreword © David A. Greenwood 2015 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2015 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries.
ISBN 978-1-349-55579-6 ISBN 978-1-137-40850-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137408501 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.
For our friend Max Sargent and all the frogs of the wetlands
Contents
List of Figures
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Foreword
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Acknowledgements
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About the Authors
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Preface
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1 Children’s Place in Sustainability Education Where are the children in research on sustainability education? Why use place as a conceptual framework? What can sustainability education mean? Chapter summaries
1 3 8 12 16
2 Sustainability Education in Practice Extending our study to the Gippsland region Sustainability education as constituted within constellations of local places Sustainability education as collective with community partners Sustainability education as incorporating creative methods of inquiry and representation Sustainability education as material practice connected to abstract thought Conclusion
23 27
3 A Coastal Classroom without Walls Monica Green
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Children’s accounts of four school ground places Children’s relations with living ecologies Sustaining people and places Conclusion vii
29 33 36 39 42
49 60 61 63
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4 Children
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