TY - JOUR
T1 - “Old newspapers from my home”
T2 - Storying children's environmental and cultural sustainability
AU - Li, Alison M.C.
AU - Gaffney, Janet S.
AU - Sansom, Adrienne N.
AU - Cheng, P. W.Doris
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors thank the participating children, parents, and educators who shared their precious stories. The first author acknowledges scholarships from the Marie Clay Literacy Trust and the University of Auckland, which supported her focus on research.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021/1
Y1 - 2021/1
N2 - Stories in children's daily lives reflect collective meaning-making and knowledge creation with educators, children, and families. The stories sparked during these collective journeys unveil their shared early childhood experiences (Engel, 2005) and inherited cultural wisdom across generations. Education for sustainable development (ESD) has drawn global interest within the field of early childhood education. UNESCO (2005) defined ESD as a weaving of social, environmental, and economical dimensions for building a sustainable world. In this article, one Hong Kong based case story was selected from a study about children's storying conducted in Aotearoa New Zealand and Hong Kong to illustrate these dimensions. This Old-Newspapers story was situated in storied conversations (Gaffney et al., 2019) among children aged 4-5 in a local kindergarten. Children inquired about the wise use of paper through conversations, experimenting, and play. Old newspapers offered pedagogical resources and inspiration that contributed to children's understanding of environmental sustainability. Besides revealing the shared and co-created learning experiences about, in, and for the environment (Davis, 1998, 2009), this story revived hidden cultural heritage and intergenerational connections in families in the social dimension.
AB - Stories in children's daily lives reflect collective meaning-making and knowledge creation with educators, children, and families. The stories sparked during these collective journeys unveil their shared early childhood experiences (Engel, 2005) and inherited cultural wisdom across generations. Education for sustainable development (ESD) has drawn global interest within the field of early childhood education. UNESCO (2005) defined ESD as a weaving of social, environmental, and economical dimensions for building a sustainable world. In this article, one Hong Kong based case story was selected from a study about children's storying conducted in Aotearoa New Zealand and Hong Kong to illustrate these dimensions. This Old-Newspapers story was situated in storied conversations (Gaffney et al., 2019) among children aged 4-5 in a local kindergarten. Children inquired about the wise use of paper through conversations, experimenting, and play. Old newspapers offered pedagogical resources and inspiration that contributed to children's understanding of environmental sustainability. Besides revealing the shared and co-created learning experiences about, in, and for the environment (Davis, 1998, 2009), this story revived hidden cultural heritage and intergenerational connections in families in the social dimension.
KW - Children's stories
KW - Cultural sustainability
KW - Early childhood education
KW - Education for sustainable development
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U2 - 10.17206/apjrece.2021.15.1.29
DO - 10.17206/apjrece.2021.15.1.29
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85103075832
SN - 1976-1961
VL - 15
SP - 29
EP - 52
JO - Asia-Pacific Journal of Research in Early Childhood Education
JF - Asia-Pacific Journal of Research in Early Childhood Education
IS - 1
ER -