Sustainable development emphasizes how people exist, the harmony between man and nature, and the equality of opportunities and rights among generations, thus reducing the pressure on future generations and the environment caused by the progress of civilization. Education has an unshirkable responsibility for sustainable development. The basic stage of personal development is in early childhood, and what kind of education is adopted at this time will be related to whether a person's life can be sustainable.
Sustainable development education provides us with a new educational perspective. It seeks the balance between cultural tradition and respect for the environment, as well as the healthy development of human beings and economy. It is generally believed that education plays an important role in realizing "cultural diversity, sustainability related to economic health and respect for the earth and resources". In educational practice, sustainable development education is inevitably related to the existing school curriculum, such as multicultural education, health education, gender education and environmental education.
From the perspective of environmental sustainable development, in the past, we generally provided children with relevant experience through science education to help them learn and understand environmental knowledge and skills related to their lives, such as environmental changes, the relationship between man and nature, biodiversity and so on. Now, it is not enough for children to learn these environmental protection knowledge. We need to help them form a critical vision and attitude in early education, and consider how to use and protect the environment from the long-term interests, not just the immediate needs.
In this way, they will not be blind when making some decisions that may affect their future quality of life. This means that children should not only understand what happened, but also know what they can do for the future. Nowadays, in many parts of the world, such as Australia, Ireland, Britain and Sweden, many kindergarten children, parents and teachers are actively trying to practice this concept.
From the perspective of sustainable economic development, for most children, teachers, teachers and parents, the consumption level in daily activities has the greatest impact on sustainable development. Therefore, the content of sustainable development education suitable for preschool children can be sustainable consumption. We should help teachers, parents and children realize why sustainable development affects every community and everyone in various forms.
We advocate the concept of sustainable consumption to reduce the burden on the environment caused by using, producing and discarding goods and services; Meet the basic needs of services and consumer goods, such as water, food, education, health and housing; Increase the development and adoption of facilities conducive to water saving and energy saving; Advocate social harmony, increase public transport facilities, and pay attention to local traditions and intangible values. These ideas can be integrated into practice and preschool education courses in various forms.
From the perspective of social sustainable development, it involves all political, cultural and social issues that affect people's quality of life. A sustainable society is an inclusive and just society, and its concept should embody participation, equality and democracy. Sustainable development requires people to respect differences, be compassionate, be equal and just. In preschool education, we should help children learn to accept ethnic and cultural diversity and differences. Children also need to learn the principles of participation, equality and democracy from an early age. Parents and teachers are equally important as role models.
In addition, the concept of sustainable development should be strengthened in educational practice. The concept of sustainable development should be embodied in the environment and service of preschool education itself. In addition, sustainable development education should also be integrated into different levels of pre-service and post-service teacher training.
The concept of sustainable development emphasizes the existence between people, the equality of rights and opportunities between generations, the harmonious unity between man and nature, and reduces the pressure on future generations and the environment caused by human civilization progress. The sustainable development of society is an unshirkable responsibility of education, and it also has an important influence on the individuals who make up the society. Therefore, from this perspective, educators should not only exert the influence of sustainable development on the educated, but also add relevant contents of sustainable development to the curriculum. To establish the concept of sustainable development, we must start from ourselves and embody it in educational practice.
The basic stage of personal development is early childhood education, and what kind of education to adopt at this time will be related to the sustainable development of an individual's life. Therefore, we borrow the concept of sustainable development to make a simple analysis of some current situations of preschool education.
The mission of carrying forward the power of human nature must be undertaken by education, because it is an important way to reflect the value of education. However, once we give up the pursuit of humanity in today's education, we will catch up with all kinds of specious trends, blindly pursue the enrollment rate and carry out the so-called' reform'. How can we really respect the value of education, the mission of education itself and people's right to sustainable development? For our current kindergarten, the most typical example is the serious lack of emotional education.
A child who doesn't know how to love himself, life, others and the world since childhood can't have a happy childhood. And how should he develop himself moderately when he grows up; How to get the chance of possible development in life? How can a child who has lived in the arranged substitution since childhood experience the joy of success, feel his own ability and understand the true meaning of happiness after his greatest efforts and efforts?
The essence of sustainable development is actually to respect the laws of education and the right of the educated to develop. Only by understanding its true meaning can we talk about how to embody the spirit of sustainable development in educational practice.
Of course, the content of sustainable development can be added to education, and it is also very important to instill the spirit of sustainable development in children: educators should let children know how to love and protect nature, change the concept that natural resources are inexhaustible and man can conquer nature, think rationally about the relationship between nature and man, and embody the concept of protecting natural resources from trivial matters; Love society, love others, and know the truth of "don't do to others what you don't want others to do to you" and "the benevolent loves others".
The sustainable development of preschool education should also be reflected in children's own development. While considering educational behavior and educational ideas, we should also consider the sustainable development of educational institutions. Whether it is the preschool education system itself or a specific preschool education institution, it is necessary to coordinate the relationship between education and other external factors in order to realize sustainable development education.
Society needs the service of education, and should constantly improve itself to adapt to social changes; At the same time, rationally guide and criticize the development of society, do not blindly follow the various trends of society, and adhere to the role of guidance and improvement; The society should not only put forward requirements and instructions for early childhood education, but also actively provide various conditions for development, such as policy support, legislative guarantee, macro-control constraints and sufficient autonomy, so as to establish a virtuous circle of mutual promotion and health between early childhood education and the social system.
Preschool education should put itself in the long-term planning, examine the management behavior of managers and the educational behavior of educators from the perspective of sustainable development, handle the relationship between itself and social development, and make itself beneficial to the sustainable development strategy of society, instead of laying hidden dangers for its future development in the early childhood stage, which constitutes the individual life of society.