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- I am keen to organise an international online experience for 4-5 year olds and their parents and educators on and around Earth Day 22nd April next year - the idea is for them to share the common experience of showing their commitment to the planet AND EACH OTHER by telling other children about what they are doing for the cause.
See: www.327Matters.org
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- England
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- Definitely - Ask me how!
- My Environmental Interest(s) (Climate Change, Solid Waste, etc.):
- Education for Sustainable Development
See: http://327matters.org/sustainability/
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World Organisation for Early Childhood Education
Organización Mundial para la Educación Preescolar
Projects with Children (Birth – 8 years) for Sustainable Development
OMEP Sweden invites practitioners all over the world to a competition by telling about a project or theme work within Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) from their Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) practice.
OMEP has chosen Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) as its main topic for the coming years. The OMEP World Congress 2010 will take place in Göteborg, Sweden. The Congress Theme is Children – citizens in a challenged world and Education for Sustainable Development is one important strand. More information is available at www.omep2010.org and details about the competition are found on http://www.omep2010.org/ESDgrant .
OMEP Sweden hereby announces a competition by which you can win a grant that will enable you to present your winning project during a congress seminar. The grant will
- cover the congress participation fee and/or
- your travel expenses and/or
- your cost for lodging
Aim
The overall aim of the competition is to collect inspiring and instructive examples from practitioners all over the world on Education for Sustainable Development among young children, from birth to eight years.
OMEP strives to enhance the awareness among children and teachers about sustainable development and to collect methods linked to the everyday world of young children that can empower children and their teachers with confidence and action competence to address sustainability challenges in their own teaching and learning environments.
The United Nations 2005 World Summit Outcome Document, refers to the ‘interdependent and mutually reinforcing pillars’ of sustainable development as social development, economic development, and environmental protection. ESD also recognizes the humanity’s dependence on a healthy biosphere. Participation and involvement are necessary components of ESD, with an emphasis on empowerment and agency for active citizenship, human rights and societal change.
Children of today are competent, active agents in their own lives. They are affected by and capable of engaging with complex environmental and social issues. They steer away from romanticized notions of childhood as an arena for innocent play that positions all children as leading exclusively sheltered, safe and happy lives untouched by events around them.
Early Childhood Education has strong traditions of integrated curriculum approaches embedded in children’s everyday lives and of child participation - this aligns well with ESD.
Please use the following structure for submitting your project/theme work (max 8 pages).
Content page
Summary 1
Background: Why this project, where, when and who participated 2
Aim and objectives of the project 3
Methods and materials used 4
Main outcomes, results and lessons learned 5
Interesting quotes 6
Current and planned follow-up 7
References 8
Submit the project/theme work report as instructed here .
Last date for submitting your competition entries is March 3, 2010.
The decisions about which projects will be awarded the grants are based on
the following criteria:
- the project involves children (birth – 8 years)
- all three ESD pillars are present (environment, economic and social)
- children are active participants in the project
- the result can be presented as Learning for change
Jury Members are OMEP World President, OMEP Sweden President, representatives of SWEDESD and GMV and professor John Siraj Blatchford, UK.
We look forward to having many good examples of children and grown-ups working together with ESD within Early Childhood Education and Care.
Welcome with your proposals!
Ingrid Engdahl
President of OMEP Sweden
Further reading:
Pramling Samuelsson, I and Kaga, Y. (Eds.) (2008). The contribution of early childhood education to a sustainable society, Paris, UNESCO. http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0015/001593/159355e.pdf
The Gothenburg Recommendations on Education for Sustainable Development (2008)
http://www.chalmers.se/gmv
http://www.ipd.gu.se/english/OMEP/projects/sustainable_development/curriculum_development_site/ a website linked to OMEP with additional readings on ESD
greetings
I decided that I must do something for the Earth, instead of waiting for somebody else to act.
If you think the same, and want to do something you can do it now.
Please read the information below and if you decide to do it, go ahead. Start now in the way you think it could be done in your hometown.
www.cleangarbageproject.blogspot.com
http://network.earthday.net/profile/proyectobasuralimpia
http://network.earthday.net/profiles/blogs/otras-directrices
www.proyectobasuralimpia.blogspot.com
Send the information to me and I will publish it in the blogs.
You can write to my personal mail
mauricio@elsitio.net.co
Thanks
Mauricio Mayorga
Please let me know if you are interested in taking part.
I thoight you might enjoy hearing of the work of Food and Trees For Africa (FTFA) who for years had a very succesful EDUPLANT program in South Africa. Or you can find them on this network. I know this organisation and its people personally and I can attest to their greatwork and the wonderful impact they are having through their various tree planting activities and programmes.
Hope to see more soon