emery, sheridan, track 4
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Transnational Dialogues for sustainability research in early childhood education: A model for building capacity
for ESD in universities?
Emery, Davis, Sageidet, Hirst, Boyd & Browder
Corresponding author: Sherridan Emery [email protected]
Transnational Dialogues in Early Childhood Education for Sustainability● What is Early Childhood Education for Sustainability?
○ Establishing and growing a field of research● Participants
○ international colleagues with an interest in research in ECEfS○ Intergenerational scholars - research students to full professors
● Rationale
○ build capacity for research in ECEfS, focussed towards children as agentic beings
○ create coalition of researchers to overcome isolation○ contribute to building researcher ‘track’○ enhance visibility of ECEfS to impact on policy and practice
● Conditions○ No funding. Participants encouraged to find own sources○ Leveraging upon major conferences ○ Focus on research collaborations and outputs
TND in ECEfS: Meetings 1, 2, 3
TND 1: Stavanger, Norway 2010
TND 2: Brisbane, Australia 2011
TND 3: Stavanger, Norway, 2015
TND 3 in Stavenger, 2015
TND3.2 : catchup of members at OMEP conference, Korea July 2016
History of the TND
○ Background: The field of ECEfS had a very small research base (Davis, 2009)
○ 2010: Prof. Julie Davis, Australia, and Prof. Eva Johansson, Norway, initiated the first meeting
○ Intentions: a forum for international researchers to share multi-national, multi-cultural and multi disciplinary perspectives and experiences
○ Goal: provoking interest and ideas for future collaborative research, publications, scholarly exchanges and mentoring
○ Initial outcomes: collaborative research proposals and papers, a submission to the deliberations that proceded the UN Rio+20 conference in 2012
Research Projects Emerging from TND3● Children’s Webs of Connectedness in ECEfS● ECEfS in Early Years Curriculum Frameworks● ECEfS in Preservice Teacher Education
Lines of flight…. ● Example of outcomes (England)
Dialogue from TND 3 has resulted in multiple ‘lines of flight’ (Deleuze & Guatarri, 1987)
○ Routledge text 2016:Boyd, Hirst & Siraj-Blatchford Understanding Sustainability in Early Childhood Education across the UK
○ Embedding the EYFS into the Eco-schools Programme○ Presentations OMEP UK (May 2016)○ The Cambridge Primary Review London (Number 4 relates to Sustainability) ○ Embed sustainability and global citizenship in educational policy and practice,
giving practical meaning to the 2015 UN agenda of ESD.○ Education for Sustainability within Early Childhood Studies; Higher Education as a
site for collaboration and Inquiry (October 2016)
Outcomes & future plans● Outcomes
○ Routledge text 2014: 30 authors; 10 countries○ Translated into Korean (2015)○ Numerous papers published○ Numerous joint conference presentations○ Thesis examiners
● Future Plans○ Special edition International Journal of EC (2017)○ TND4 to be held in Canada in 2017○ Continue to expand loose membership in a controlled way
Lessons Learned ?● Lines of flight demonstrating the power of collaboration
as a transformative tool. Sue Elliott talked about developing the ‘patches of green’(Davis & Elliott, 2015).
● From patches of green to weaving webs.● How is this a model for building capacity for ESD in
universities?
references
Davis, J. and Elliot, S. (2014) Research in Early Childhood Education for Sustainability: International perspectives and provocations. London: Routledge.
Deleuze, G and Guatarri, F. (1987) A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and schizophrenia. London: University of Minnesota Press.
Contact Information● Sherridan Emery (Australia)- [email protected]● Julie M. Davis (Australia) - [email protected]● Barbara Maria Sageidet (Norway)- [email protected]● Nicky Hirst (United Kingdom) - [email protected]● Diane Boyd (United Kingdom) - [email protected]● Jamison K. Browder (USA)- [email protected]