Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of contributors -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction / Valerie Huggins and David Evans -- Early childhood education and care for sustainability : historical context and current challenges / Eva Ärlemalm-Hagsér and Ingrid Pramling Samuelson -- Towards a pedagogy of hope : sustainability education in the early years / Paul Warwick, Alice Warwick and Kate Nash -- The place of expressive arts in early childhood education and care for sustainability / Paulette Luff -- Nestling into the world : the importance of place and mutuality in the early years / Alun Morgan and Sue Waite -- Yes we can! young children learning to contribute to an enabling society / Maria Assunção Folque -- Education for sustainability in the Hungarian kindergartens / Anikó Nagy Varga ... [et al.] -- Complexities in implementing early childhood education for sustainability in a majority world context / Valerie Huggins -- The contribution of forest school to early childhood education for sustainability / Sara Knight and Paulette Luff -- Sustainable leadership in the early years / Jan Georgeson -- Designing environmentally sustainable multimodal provocations for early years learning environments / Sandra Hesterman -- Looking forward : the future development of ECECfS under the SDGs / Lucien Georgeson.

This innovative and timely book explores issues and concerns surrounding education for sustainable development in early childhood, providing a range of perspectives on how we can live and promote more healthy, just and sustainable lives. It examines the professional responsibility of early years practitioners to embed sustainability into their everyday practice and to ensure that young children are acquiring the knowledge and skills they need to become effective agents of change, committed problem-solvers and system-thinkers.