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EYFS Activities - Education for Sustainability: Great minds

Continuing her series on introducing the themes of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals to children, Dr Diane Boyd looks at industry, innovation and infrastructure

This goal aims to support future entrepreneurs and researchers and recognise their contribution to the economy. In 2019, fewer than one in five people used the internet in the least-developed countries.

A key attribute of education for sustainability is creativity and divergent thinking (European Commission 2014), and early childhood is a foundation for developing such mindsets. The Characteristics of Effective Learning (DfE 2021) stress the need for practitioners to promote active learning through investigation, but crucially for children to ‘develop their own ideas, make links between ideas, and develop strategies for doing things’.

The Reggio Emilia and the Mosaic approach both advocate the use of multimodal ways of learning. The use of music, dance and movement using different materials and technology provides opportunities with voice, text, image, sound affects and animations. This goal highlights the need for such practices, allowing the children to decide how to express themselves.

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