<abstract xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>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.</p></abstract>

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.

The Agentive Role of Children's Views in Sustainable Education

Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability

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The environment and peoples' ideas of the environment are intertwined in the Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). The environment has an effect on the...

The Agentive Role of Children's Views in Sustainable Education

Publicado en línea: 04 may 2009

Páginas: 68 - 79

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10099-009-0014-5

Palabras clave
education for sustainable development, adaptation, accommodation, assimilation, agency

This content is open access.

The Agentive Role of Children's Views in Sustainable Education

Publicado en línea: 04 may 2009

Páginas: 68 - 79

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10099-009-0014-5

Palabras claveeducation for sustainable development, adaptation, accommodation, assimilation, agency

This content is open access.

Palabras clave
education for sustainable development, adaptation, accommodation, assimilation, agency