Early Childhood Education for Sustainability: Research, Practice and Policy

Early Childhood Education for Sustainability offers an interdisciplinary perspective on early childhood education for sustainability, linking to research, practice and policy developments, in responding to the growing concerns about the environmental, economic, social and political crises in the 21st century.

Promising a pathbreaking dive into practice, research and policy developments into sustainable developments in early childhood education and care, author Fengling Tang takes an interdisciplinary approach to sustainability by engaging with a wide range of perspectives and approaches including ancient philosophies, early childhood heritage such as a Froebelian perspective, spirituality, environmental activism, social justice, democratic education, and the Posthuman new materialist lens. Drawing on multiple research methods via documentary research, empirical research evidence from early childhood settings including England and China, and a dialogic approach to personal experience and professional reflections, the chapters invite creative critical engagement of readers with the important aspects around sustainability.

Exploring the critical need to explore alternative thinking and approaches to maintain and sustain human well-being and wellbeing of the planet earth in the 21st century, this is important reading for students in higher education, practitioners, researchers, policy makers and stakeholders in the early childhood context and beyond.

• Publication date: 9 September 2026
• Page count: 152
• Dimensions: Height 229 mm; Width 152 mm
• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Format: Hardback
• ISBN-13: 9781835491836