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This collection offers a wide-ranging and thoughtful examination of how nature education for young children is evolving in the 21st century. In chapters based on empirical research and examples of reflective practice, the book reveals how nature-based approaches are transforming educational policy, theoretical frameworks, and educational practice in early childhood and beyond.Drawing on research from international contributors across diverse educational settings, the volume explores:Challenges to concepts of childhood, risk, and human–nature interaction, past and presentCulturally specific and Indigenous knowledge systemsTeacher preparation and professional development pathwaysStrategies for family and community engagementEffective nature-based learning in urban environmentsBeyond highlighting successful approaches, the collection tackles implementation challenges head-on, providing practical recommendations and thought-provoking questions designed for both individual reflection and group discussion.This essential resource equips undergraduate and postgraduate students, education researchers, and practicing teachers with the insights they need to enact and critique nature-based pedagogical approaches, especially (but not only) for young learners.

This collection offers a wide-ranging and thoughtful examination of how nature education for young children is evolving in the 21st century. In chapters based on empirical research and examples of reflective practice, the book reveals how nature-based approaches are transforming educational policy, theoretical frameworks, and educational practice in early childhood and beyond.Drawing on research from international contributors across diverse educational settings, the volume explores:Challenges to concepts of childhood, risk, and human–nature interaction, past and presentCulturally specific and Indigenous knowledge systemsTeacher preparation and professional development pathwaysStrategies for family and community engagementEffective nature-based learning in urban environmentsBeyond highlighting successful approaches, the collection tackles implementation challenges head-on, providing practical recommendations and thought-provoking questions designed for both individual reflection and group discussion.This essential resource equips undergraduate and postgraduate students, education researchers, and practicing teachers with the insights they need to enact and critique nature-based pedagogical approaches, especially (but not only) for young learners.

The public provision of early childhood education has developed at different rates across individual countries over the past two centuries. This book provides the historical background to explain how these national differences occurred, with particular reference to welfare and educational systems, to highlight how particular influences grew.

Kindergarten Narratives on Froebelian Education showcases the latest scholarship and historical understandings concerning the casting of the kindergarten idea abroad: across cultures, continents and centuries.Each chapter reveals previously unknown narratives of intrepid endeavour, political pragmatism and pedagogical innovation that collectively provide insight into the transformation of Froebel’s ideas on early education into a global phenomenon. Across global contexts, each chapter presents a case study of the ideas scattering abroad, illustrative of the movement of ideas, curricula and pedagogical change; in effect taking the kindergarten beyond the geographies and pedagogies of its German beginnings and borders. Chapters draw on historical examples of Froebelian education from The Netherlands, New Zealand, Japan, Sweden, the UK and the USA.In the journal History of Education in 2006, Froebelian history scholar Professor Kevin J. Brehony (1948-2013) lamented the ‘relative neglect’ of the history of early years education at the same time there was a heightened global social and political interest in educating the young child. In this book, an international team of contributors respond to Brehony’s suggestion that historical perspectives can play a role in current debates and suggest ways historical narratives might inform policies and practices in twenty-first century early childhood education, care settings and contexts. Reconnecting past lessons and insights with present and future concerns for early education, young children and their place in society, this important collection also includes an historical timeline charting the spread of Froebelian education ideas and kindergartens across the world.

Kindergarten Narratives on Froebelian Education showcases the latest scholarship and historical understandings concerning the casting of the kindergarten idea abroad: across cultures, continents and centuries.Each chapter reveals previously unknown narratives of intrepid endeavour, political pragmatism and pedagogical innovation that collectively provide insight into the transformation of Froebel’s ideas on early education into a global phenomenon. Across global contexts, each chapter presents a case study of the ideas scattering abroad, illustrative of the movement of ideas, curricula and pedagogical change; in effect taking the kindergarten beyond the geographies and pedagogies of its German beginnings and borders. Chapters draw on historical examples of Froebelian education from The Netherlands, New Zealand, Japan, Sweden, the UK and the USA.In the journal History of Education in 2006, Froebelian history scholar Professor Kevin J. Brehony (1948-2013) lamented the ‘relative neglect’ of the history of early years education at the same time there was a heightened global social and political interest in educating the young child. In this book, an international team of contributors respond to Brehony’s suggestion that historical perspectives can play a role in current debates and suggest ways historical narratives might inform policies and practices in twenty-first century early childhood education, care settings and contexts. Reconnecting past lessons and insights with present and future concerns for early education, young children and their place in society, this important collection also includes an historical timeline charting the spread of Froebelian education ideas and kindergartens across the world.

This book considers the diffusion and transfer of educational ideas through local and transcontinental networks within and across five socio-political spaces. The authors examine the social, political, and historical preconditions for the transfer of “new education” theory and practices in each period, place, and school, along with the networks of ideas and experts that supported this. The authors use historical methods to examine the schools and to pursue the story of the circulation of new ideas in education. In particular, chapters investigate how educational ideas develop within contexts, travel across boundaries, and are adapted in new contexts.