STEAM Outdoor Education for Sustainability: a New Curriculum for Early Childhood Education - DOROTA ZDYBEL (Autor); Eleonora Pantò (Autor); Maria Cinque (Autor); Mariana Fuentes (Autor); MARTYNA SZCZOTKA (Autor); Mónica Fernández Morilla (Autor); Sarah Waters (Autor); Yvonne Crotty (Autor) (2024)
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The "Kids Lab for Sustainability" project aligns with the European Commission's recommendations on "Key Competencies for Lifelong Learning" (2019) and the European Pillars of Social Rights (2020) by aiming to elevate the quality of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) programmes. The project introduces an innovative curriculum entitled "STEAM Outdoor Education for Sustainability" which bridges the gap between sustainability as curriculum content and STEAM as a methodology for teaching and learning. STEAM, an acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics, embodies a holistic, inquiry-based approach to learning, where children engage in solving real-life, interdisciplinary problems within meaningful contexts. This method not only fosters children's self-confidence and self-efficacy but also reshapes educators' perspectives, emphasising children's intellectual abilities over traditional academic achievements. The project worked to establish a collaboration between higher education institutions, preschools, and educational policymakers in different countries to support preschool teacher in acquiring new competences and improved the quality of ECEC pre-service training by integrating a "STEAM and Sustainability" module into university programmes, employing a blended learning approach to engage educators in hands-on experiences and online courses. Moreover the project developed a lot of innovative didactic materials available in 5 languages (EN,PL, IT, SP, Catalan) offered as Open Educational Resources (OER) on the project website. The project aims to provide teacher trainers worldwide with validated manuals and guidelines that incorporate STEAM methodologies. This initiative seeks to cultivate sustainable attitudes toward life and nature amongst children.
Keywords: pedagogika; pedagogika