Kids Lab 4 Sustainability

Description

In line with EC recommendation “Key competencies for lifelong learning” (2019) and the European Pillars of Social Rights (2020) the project aims to enhance the quality of ECEC programs by offering an innovative curriculum “STEAM outdoor education for sustainability”. An added value of this curriculum is creating the links between the two critical challenges recognized in EU documents: sustainability as a source of curriculum content and STEAM as a methodology of teaching and learning.

STEAM can be defined as a holistic, inquiry-based strategy of learning by solving complex, interdisciplinary, real-life problems, in a context which is meaningful for children. Using such an approach to early education we can support children’s self-confidence, build their self-efficacy feelings and positive image as learners. We also change the teachers’ perspective – putting emphasis on children’s intellectual abilities (such as: critical and creative thinking, observing, predicting, comparing, drawing evidence-based conclusion, reflecting on one’s own knowledge etc.) rather than on direct reading and writing achievements.

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