Creating an Eco-Friendly Early Years Setting

A Practical Guide

Cheryl Hadland (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2020
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-33369-7 (ISBN)

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This book offers a comprehensive guide to becoming a more eco-friendly setting, from small steps that can be taken to reduce waste and improve efficiency to setting up partnerships. It illustrates how sustainable choices can become a natural part of every child’s education and how children, parents and staff can all inspire sustainable behaviour across local communities and at national and international levels.

Covering all aspects of practice including colleague and parental engagement, the environment, routines, resources, and teaching and learning, the book helps readers and practitioners to embed a sustainable approach in day-to-day practice. It draws on recent research, studies and stories of success and failure that can be adapted to fit everyone’s own journey towards a more sustainable world. The chapters address topics such as:

plastics and their alternatives

sustainable food

sustainable resourcing

transport and trips

waste management.

Drawing on the experiences of real nurseries and including a wide range of activities and lists of resources, this is an essential read for practitioners, leaders, policymakers and all settings that want to help make sustainable choices a natural part of young children’s lives.

Cheryl Hadland is the Founder and Managing Director of Tops Day Nurseries, Aspire Training Team and Hadland Care Group, and the early years sustainability charity, GECCO, UK.

Parents

Working with Colleagues

Pedagogy

Plastics, and their Alternatives

Nappies and Wet Wipes

Play Activities

Children’s Gardening

The Natural World and Pets

Electronic Equipment

Building Design

Cleaning, Sanitizing and Disinfecting, Personal Care

Sustainable Food

Sustainable Resourcing

Transport and Trips

Waste Management

Legal Framework and Relevant Accreditations

Advocacy

Standards, Curricula and Accreditation Specific to Early Years

Summary

Appendices

I. Tops Supplier Grading

II. Tops CSER Policy

III. Tops Sustainable Travel Plan example

IV. Tops Sustainability Check List example

V. GECCO Disposable/Plastic Nappy v Real/Reusable Nappy Poster

VI. Self-accreditation GECCO draft Wheel

VII. Eco festival dates

VIII. Useful websites

IX. Children’s Books

X. Educators’ Books

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	22.04.2019
Zusatzinfo	15 Tables, black and white; 5 Line drawings, color; 37 Halftones, color; 42 Illustrations, color
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Gewicht	700 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Vorschulpädagogik
ISBN-10	1-138-33369-7 / 1138333697
ISBN-13	978-1-138-33369-7 / 9781138333697
Zustand	Neuware