Exploring the New Sustainability Principle: Concepts, Pedagogies, and Practices

Sustainability is understood and practiced by educators in various ways, and a key challenge is building conceptual knowledge about sustainability and translating this into meaningful pedagogies and practices with children.

The new curriculum framework sustainability principle offers a timely platform for educators to critically reflect about sustainability and what it means for pedagogy and practice.

In this online professional learning workshop, we will explore concepts and pedagogies around sustainability and the shared roles of children, educators’ and families in creating healthy and sustainable learning communities.

The workshop will include coverage of climate change risks for children, relevant curriculum frameworks, pedagogical principles and illustrative practices. Interactive discussions around these topics will be incorporated to promote shared educator understandings. The aim is to build with educators a coherent knowledge base and pedagogies for creating sustainable futures with young children and their families.

In this session you will:

  • Identify the climate change risks for young children
  • Describe sustainability as a multi-dimensional concept
  • Recognise the new sustainability principle as relevant to all Learning Outcomes
  • Outline links between pedagogical principles and daily sustainable practices with children

 

Recommended Audience:

Early Childhood Educators working in early childhood services with children Birth-5years.

    • $155

    • Date

      Mon 15 June
      6:30 PM – 8:00 PM

    • Location

      Orange

    • Presented by

      • Dr Sue Elliott
    Register
    • $135

    • Date

      Mon 17 August
      6:30 PM – 8:00 PM

    • Location

      Online via Zoom

    • Presented by

      • Dr Sue Elliott
    Register

About the presenters

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    Dr Sue Elliott

    Dr. Sue Elliott is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Education at the University of New England (UNE), New South Wales, Armidale and a visiting scholar at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Sue is a long-term early childhood education for sustainability advocate, researcher and author and internationally co-convenes the TransNational Dialogues in Early Childhood Education for Sustainability research group. She is co-editor of Young Children and the Environment (3rd ed.) (Davis & Elliott, 2024) and co-author of Early Childhood Australia Essentials: Sustainability in early childhood (Elliott & Davis, 2023). In 2023, Sue was acknowledged as a Fellow of the Australian Association of Environmental Education. Healthy sustainable futures for young children drive her work across the early childhood education sector.