Natur og bæredygtighed i daginstitutionen – pædagogik for bæredygtighed i praksis

Abstract

The article presents an action research study carried out with pedagogues and children from five daycare centers in Denmark that participated in a two-year long open-ended experiment on how to develop pedagogy for sustainability. This implied local experiments that extended or developed existing nature activities to meet regulated nature and to reach out for sustainability issues. The experiments proved to favor Eco-friendly innovations aimed to enhance children’s eco-friendly behavior. The experiments also produced Eco-critical suggestions on how to open the world and encourage children’s critical thinking about resources and our common future. However, the development of an Eco-critical pedagogy for sustainability proved to be a difficult pedagogical endeavor that touched upon questions of how to open the world and protect children’s mind and heart at the same time.

Keywords: action research, sustainability, nature, society