Embedding sustainability in the Early Years curriculum: The Curiosity Approach and its foundations in the work of education pioneers

Solvason, Carla ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3072-0079 and Sutton-Tsang, Samantha ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0302-7842 (2025) Embedding sustainability in the Early Years curriculum: The Curiosity Approach and its foundations in the work of education pioneers. In: Sustainability Education for Children and Young People: Educating for the Environmental Crisis. Routledge, London. ISBN ISBN: 978‑1‑032‑82894‑7 (hbk) ISBN: 978‑1‑032‑79635‑2 (pbk) ISBN: 978‑1‑003‑50685‑0 (ebk)

Abstract

In this chapter, we explore what ‘The Curiosity Approach’ can offer us when considering the values of sustainability within Early Childhood Education and Care and Education. The Curiosity Approach is a pedagogy based upon well-established Early Childhood Education and Care approaches, that places children’s agency at its heart, igniting their creativity and their thirst for learning. It makes them more aware of the natural world around them. How wonderful would it be if pedagogues could support that excitement in relation to sustainable ways of living? This chapter draws on the Case Study of an International School situated in the United Arab Emirates through which we explore how sustainable resources, and a sense of agency in the world, can be woven through the curriculum of our youngest children.

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