Postdevelopmental Approaches to Environmental Early Childhood Education
Postdevelopmental Approaches to Environmental Early Childhood Education
Description
This book explores postdevelopmental responses to environmental education, analyzing childhoods as they are produced within the geo-political epoch of the Anthropocene. Written by researchers based in Australia, Canada, Finland, Norway, South Africa, the UK and the USA, it addresses an urgent need to interrogate early childhood educational practices that seek to grapple with the destructive and irreversible processes of planetary crisis in which early childhood plays out. The chapters cover a range of themes and issues including the more-than-human, multispecies experiences, new materialism, Indigenous knowledge, issues of race and environmentalism, the UN Sustainable Development Goals, outdoor education, and urban and rural educational settings. The book offers a collective, active response to the normative and prevailing orthodoxy of developmental trajectories that have come to dominate pedagogical practice in early childhood contexts.
Table of Contents
1. Editorial/Introduction: Jayne Osgood, Claire Walsh & Hannah Hogarth
2. Becoming-With: Partial Compositions of Infrastructural Pedagogies. Malvika Agarwal & Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw
3. From Concrete to Code: Environmental Learning and Cultural Resistance in Urban and Virtual World. Deja Jones
4. Vital Encounters: Rain, Relationality, and Climate Pedagogies in the Early Years, Iris Duhn & Gloria Quinones
5. Against Impatient Time: Storying Environmental Early Childhood Education Otherwise. Claire Walsh and Hannah Hogarth
6. Education inside out. Microbial childhoods unsettling educational metaphors and practices. Riikka Hohti & Jan Varpanen
7. Re-storying Anthropocene Childhoods through Non-innocent Encounters with Microbes. Jayne Osgood & Vik de Rijke
8. Place-responsive co-inquiry with a labyrinth in a forest preschool: A performative account. Anna Vladimirova
9. Rethinking Being Human and Matter: Theorising postdevelopmentalist early childhood environmental education by mapping a posthumanist, new materialist and ecological philosophical convergence. Karen Malone
10. A Day in the Death of Childhood. Rose-Anne Reynolds
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Product details
| Published | 10 Dec 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 208 |
| ISBN | 9781350572935 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 10 bw illus |
| Series | Postdevelopmental Approaches to Childhood |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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