Young Children and the Environment Early Education for Sustainability

The key principles of this text have not changed in this third edition, especially its child agency and rights focus. We continue to argue that children’s voices are integral to implementing ECEfS. The editors and authors remain fundamentally committed to advocating for and profiling the capabilities and rights of young children as active thinkers and doers, who can enact so much in their own contexts to shift ideas and practices towards sustainable solutions. This text is not a response that seeks to shift responsibilities from adults to children, asking next generations to fix what todays adults leave behind. It remains a book of positive thinking and actions showing what early education communities can do when children, educators and parents work together towards living sustainably. The book continues to be about learning and taking action to ‘make a difference’ within the scope of children’s own lives and contexts, and identifying the power of ECEfS as a catalyst for transformative change.