Sustainability in Early Childhood Education: A Living Inquiry

A quintessential guide for educators and caregivers, this book explores the intersections of sustainability and childhood curriculum. Educators Elaine Beltran-Sellitti and Margaret MacDonald follow the story and findings of a nine-month long research project that took place in a living, environmentally friendly, “more than green” building housing two university-run childcare centres.The building of interest was designed with many of Reggio Emilia’s learning principles in mind.Together, the authors asked the questions: What can children and teachers learn from and with this environmentally conscious Reggio-inspired building? And what is the educator’s role in supporting their resultant curiosity and learning?In addition to understanding the special context that was engendered by the living building, the book also addresses the wide-ranging tensions and pressures affecting contemporary teaching practices of curriculum as living inquiry. This book includes the articulation of a vision for