Young Children and the Environment Early Education for Sustainability

On one level, this chapter invites readers on an engaging cultural and geographic journey across the Americas, but more deeply it challenges our ways of facilitating early childhood teacher education for sustainability. There is no one right way to motivate teachers – both pre-service and in-service – to take on the challenges of sustainability; however, this chapter offers a range of possibilities. Harwood examines a Canadian pre-service ECEfS course of study with Indigenous and colonial perspectives interwoven; Carr focuses on the in-service experiences of educators participating in a centre transformation towards ECEfS at Arlitt Child Development Center; while Bascopé documents an in-service exploration of the role of Indigenous Chilean culture in ECEfS with teachers. Diversity and richness characterise this chapter.