SUSTAINABILITY IN ELEMENTARY EDUCATION

Elementary Education in Germany

Elementary education in Germany includes all institutions which cater for children until they begin school. Its position is ambivalent: On the one hand, it is part of the educational system (elementary level), on the other hand it is part of the welfare system as it is provided by nonpublic and public youth welfare services. Therefore one can also speak of child care institutions, which, howeve...

Gaps in sustainability education

Purpose – This paper aims to examine how both the amount and type of coursework impact students’ conceptualizations of sustainability. Previous research demonstrates that academic coursework influences students’ environmental attitudes, yet few studies have examined the impact of coursework on how students conceptualize “sustainability”. Design/methodology/approach – Data are examined from the ...

Multicultural education in Farsi textbooks (Reading) Iran Elementary Education

The purpose of this study was to examine multicultural education in the content of Farsi textbooks of elementary education in Iran.This research was conducted within a qualitative framework and the qualitative content analysis method was used with a conventional (inductive) approach. The sampling method was purposeful and the sample included Farsi textbooks of all the grades of elementary educa...

Education for Sustainability

Psychoanalysis and American Elementary Education

BEFORE Freud, mental disturbances were generally understood to be organic in origin. Psychoanalysis grew out of discoveries made by Freud that these disturbances were often better treated by psychological means than by medical approaches. Because he developed his therapeutic method and theory simultaneously, the term psychoanalysis has since come to refer to a loosely knit theory of mental proc...