Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.15516/cje.v19i0.2712
Contribution to the Development of Kindergarten/Preschool Teachers’ Competences for Education for Sustainable Development in Preschool Institutionstanov
Dunja Anđić
orcid.org/0000-0001-8444-1820
; Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Rijeka
Abstract
One of the fundamental tasks of the kindergarten/ preschool teacher is to familiarize the child with its environment and optimal stimulation of its growth and development, including the development of the fundamental rights of children to an environment, clean air, drinking water, healthy living, and quality of childhood. The sensitization of children is of essential importance for the future of education for sustainable development, which needs to be developed from early childhood. The problem of the curriculum and work practices of kindergarten/preschool teachers includes questioning the competence for the successful practice of working with children in education for sustainable development. In this paper, we present some of the existing models of evaluation of the competence for lifelong education for sustainable development. We developed a measuring instrument, which measures particular characteristics explored in this paper, and we present the results of this preliminary research. The research was conducted on a sample of 65 teachers in five kindergartens/preschools. The constructed scale explains 48% of the total variance and can be used as an important base for future further questioning and development of competence model of kindergarten/preschool teachers. In this way, it represents a good foundation for reflection on the content of the curriculum of future initial education and professional development of kindergarten/preschool teachers in the field of lifelong education.
Keywords
competence; environmental education/education for sustainable development; kindergarten/preschool teachers; kindergartens/preschools; lifelong learning; sustainable society
Hrčak ID:
201189
URI
Publication date:
27.12.2017.
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