Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS)

Children, place and sustainability, Margaret Somerville, Monica Green

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

no index present

non fiction

Children, place and sustainability

Margaret Somerville, Monica Green

References throughout to Indigenous epistemology and relationship to land

1. Children's Place in Sustainability Education -- Where are the children in research on sustainability education? -- Why use place as a conceptual framework? -- What can sustainability education mean? -- Chapter summaries -- 2. Sustainability Education in Practice -- Extending our study to the Gippsland region -- Sustainability education as constituted within constellations of local places -- Sustainability education as collective with community partners -- Sustainability education as incorporating creative methods of inquiry and representation -- Sustainability education as material practice connected to abstract thought -- Conclusion -- 3. A Coastal Classroom without Walls / Monica Green -- Children's accounts of four school ground places -- Children's relations with living ecologies -- Sustaining people and places -- Conclusion -- 4. Children's Place Learning Maps: Thinking through Country / Margaret Somerville -- Children in (postcolonial) natureculture places -- Thinking through Country -- Blue -- Wonderings and place learning maps -- Finding the map maker -- Conclusion -- 5. Place-Making by Design / Monica Green -- Design and garden-based learning -- The garden project: The Patch Primary School -- Visualising the future: Children as designers -- From abstraction to materiality -- Reflections on the garden project -- Conclusion -- 6. Emergent Literacies in `The Land of Do Anything You Want' / Margaret Somerville -- Event 1 Stones at the river -- Event 2 Dirt, leaf stalks and jacaranda flowers -- Event 3 Water, sand-mud, tin and child -- Event 4 Child, birds, stones, soundings -- Event 5 Emergent literacy in the `land of do anything you want' -- Conclusion -- 7. In the Kitchen Garden / Monica Green -- Defining the meaning of gardens -- Seeds -- The garden as a local food system -- The silverbeet and potato torte -- Children's individual learning style in gardens -- Sustainability in Australian curriculum frameworks -- Conclusion -- 8. Separation and Connection: Children Negotiating Difference / Margaret Somerville -- Children and global violence -- Social sustainability and children's rights -- The study -- Language mapping process and analysis -- Collaborative analysis of Grade 3/4 maps -- Collaborative analysis of Grade 5/6 maps -- Language and environment -- Conclusion -- 9. Children, Place and Sustainability / Margaret Somerville -- The ontological position of children -- Place as an essential in-between of children and sustainability -- The meaning of sustainability education -- Cockies