A FREE RESOURCE FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATORS AND LEADERS
the sEEING sUSTAINABILITY FIELD GUIDE
A different way of looking at the sustainability already happening around you.
Sustainability can be easy to recognise when it takes a visible form.
A garden. A compost heap. Recycling. Saving water.
But there can be much more happening within an everyday experience than we see at first.
The Seeing Sustainability Field Guide invites you to explore sustainability through the experiences, relationships, knowledge, resources and decisions that shape everyday life in an early childhood setting.
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Sometimes sustainability is hiding in plain sight.
Early childhood educators are already surrounded by opportunities for sustainability learning.
They might appear during lunch, in a conversation between children, while something is being repaired or thrown away, when a family shares knowledge, or when a team makes a decision about how things happen in the setting.
The challenge is not always finding another sustainability activity.
Sometimes it is seeing the sustainability within what is already happening.
What becomes possible when we learn to see more of sustainability in everyday experiences?
A field guide for seeing sustainability differently.
The Field Guide gives you a simple place to begin exploring.
It helps you slow down, notice what catches your attention and consider what might be sitting around it.
Then, rather than giving you another list of things to implement, it gives you questions to take into your own setting.
NOTICE
Begin with something already happening in your setting and look more closely at what it might reveal about sustainability.
EXPLORE
Follow the questions, connections and perspectives that begin to emerge.
DISCOVER
See possibilities for sustainability learning that may have been less visible before.
What might this change for you?
When sustainability is understood through everyday experiences, it becomes easier to find meaningful places to begin.
You don't have to keep searching for the next project.
You can start with what is already happening, use it as a starting point for inquiry, and explore where it might lead.
For educators, this can create more possibilities for children to investigate, question, understand and contribute to sustainability in ways that are connected to their lives and their place.
For teams, it can create a shared way of noticing and talking about sustainability, helping individual observations become part of collective learning and capability.
And for leaders, it can provide another way to see where sustainability is already developing within the life of the service, and where there may be opportunities to nurture it further.
Less searching for sustainability activities. More noticing of sustainability in practice.
Take a closer look.
Inside the Field Guide, you'll encounter a series of invitations to help you explore familiar experiences from different angles.
You'll be encouraged to notice what catches your attention, shift your perspective, follow connections and look more widely at what sustainability might involve.
There is space to record what you notice, questions you want to consider and discoveries you want to take back to your setting.
Ready to Explore?
Get your free copy of the Seeing Sustainability Field Guide and take it with you into your own setting.
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Take it with you. Bring it back.
You might explore the Field Guide on your own, using it to capture something that has caught your attention during the day.
Or take a question into your next team conversation.
What one educator notices may prompt another question. A different perspective may open something new. Over time, individual discoveries can become part of a shared way of thinking about sustainability.
The Field Guide can be a starting point for your own exploration, or the beginning of a conversation with your team.
Ready to see sustainability differently?
Download The Seeing Sustainability Field Guide and take a little time to explore what sustainability might reveal when you look at familiar experiences in a different way.
No cost. Just an invitation to explore.
Come and explore with us
At Project Sustainability Collective, we're continuing to explore the connections between sustainability, learning and capability alongside early childhood educators and leaders.
Our resources, conversations and programs offer different ways to venture out, encounter new ideas and bring discoveries back to your own setting.
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