Nursery World - Nursery Equipment: Teaching Sustainability

Why environmental issues are best introduced in the early years – and how practitioners can do so. By Annette Rawstrone

Today’s children are the generation who will be most affected by major sustainability issues. Even early years children can do something positive to address the challenges facing our societies and planet if they are given the knowledge and understanding and enabled to develop the skills to question and make changes.

Rather than focusing on just environmental issues, according to UNESCO, there are three pillars necessary to shape a sustainable future:

WHERE TO START

‘Early childhood is the time to start teaching children about sustainability. Early childhood settings have a duty to give all the information available to the children otherwise they will grow up to be adults who are uninformed citizens,’ says Diane Boyd, senior lecturer in early years at Liverpool John Moores University.

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