The Agentive Role of Children's Views in Sustainable Education

• Authors: Jyrki Reunamo
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The environment and peoples' ideas of the environment are intertwined in the Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). The environment has an effect on the educational content and people have an effect on the environment. Thus, sustainable education includes producing culture by children and with children. Sustainable learning should include finding ways to consider the effects of actions. The theoretic framework presented in the article was operationalized and studied in four Finnish kindergartens. The results bring children forward as producers of educational content. Children's views have an effect on the educational setting. In agentive learning children learn things that they themselves have been taking part creating. In discussion, the emerging roles of a teacher for ESD are considered. To be balanced, ESD may not only consider the equilibrium between accommodation and assimilation, but also the equilibrium between adaptation and agency.

Keywords

EN

education for sustainable development; adaptation; accommodation; assimilation; agency

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 8
• Pages: 68-79

Dates

published

2007-01-01

online

2009-05-04

Contributors

author

Jyrki Reunamo

• University of Helsinki, Finland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10099-009-0014-5