国外幼儿可持续发展教育研究的核心议题与拓展空间

Foreign Research on Education for Sustainable Development in Early Childhood:Core Issues and Expansion Space

幼儿可持续发展教育作为一个新兴研究领域,近年来备受西方国家关注。通过梳理国外相关文献,对幼儿可持续发展教育的基本意蕴及核心研究议题进行解析发现,西方国家主要从环境取向和“三大支柱”两种视角理解幼儿可持续发展教育,幼儿对可持续发展的认识、教师对幼儿可持续发展教育的认识、幼儿可持续发展教育的实施理路、幼儿可持续发展教育的评价是当前国际幼儿可持续发展教育研究的核心议题。未来应强化经济领域和社会领域的研究、幼儿可持续发展教育评价研究、可持续发展教育与学前教育机构课程的融合研究。

As an emerging research field,education for sustainable development in early childhood has received much attention from Western countries in recent years.Through combing the relevant foreign literature,this paper analyzes the basic connotations and core issues of early childhood education for sustainability.It is found that the Western countries mainly understand the early childhood education for sustainability from two perspectives:environmental orientation and the“Three Pillars.”The core issues in current international research on early childhood education for sustainability include children’s understanding of sustainable development,teachers’understanding of early childhood education for sustainability,practice approaches of early childhood education for sustainability,and evaluation of early childhood education for sustainability.In the future,we should strengthen the research in the economic and social fields,the research on the evaluation of early childhood education for sustainability,and the research on the integration of sustainable development education and the curriculum of preschool education institutions.