The research focus is the mutual learning processes of participating practitioners, student teachers and researchers. The project has two phases: 1) to study how sustainability is currently envisioned and enacted in Finnish ECEC; 2) to arrange research circles, tutoring, workshops, and seminars for practitioners and student teachers.
The expected outcomes of the project are to prompt the development of new sustainability theories and practices, and enhance further dialogue between researchers and practitioners. Nordic perspectives of ECEC, contemporary aesthetic theory and arts-based practices, relational ontology and epistemology, and critical phenomenology influence the project.
SUSTE Project has been financed by the
SUSTE Collaboration & Partners 2018-2021
Research assistance:
2021
EECERA SIG FORUM. Sustainability in Early Childhood Education.
2020
Paper presentation accepted for EECERA 2020. Postponed until 2021.
2019
2018
Original photo: Lili-Ann Wolff, Thessaloniki, 2019.
Upcoming: Wolff L-A. Nature as experience and joint attention: How to engage toddlers outdoors. (Work in progress)
2022
Furu A-C, Kaihovirta, H & Ekholm. S. (2022). Promoting Sustainability Through Multimodal Storytelling. Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability.
PUBLISHED! Kaihovirta, H. (Ed.), Åerg-Hildén, M. Furu, C. & Wolff, L-A (2022). Barn slöjdar hållbart. Handbok för slöjd och skapande i småbarnspedagogik. SUSTE, University of Helsinki. PUBLIC IN MARCH 2022 ON SUSTE WEB!
2021
Kaihovirta, H. & Furu, A-C. (2021). Kroppslig laering, visuelle praksiser i og multimodale fortellinger i småbarnspedagogikk. In
2020
Furu A-C. & Kaihovirta H. (2020). Att möta barns klimatoro genom hoppets och handlingens pedagogik. In
Wolff, L-A & Skarstein, T. (2020).
Wolff, L-A, Skarstein, T. & Skarstein, F. (2020).
2019
Furu, A-C. (2019). Narratives on sustainability and sloyd in Finnish ECEC. Nordic Studies in Education, 39 (3) 198-213.
Furu, A-C. (2019).
Furu, A-C. (2019) Kestävä varhaiskasvatus – miksi, mitä ja miten? I A. Pakanen (Red.) Varhaiskasvatuken opettajan kalenteri 2019-2020. Jyväskylä: PS-Kustannus.
Boyd, W. & Furu, A-C. (2019)
2018
Furu, A-C., Wolff, L-A. & Suomela, L. (2018) Premisser för hållbarhet i den finländska utbildningen av lärare inom småbarnspedagogik – en kritisk granskning av visioner och verklighet. Utbildning och demokrati, 27 (2) 59-80.
Wolff, L-A & Furu, A-C. (2018).
SUSTE project 2018-2021 has supported Bachelor and Master thesis processes for early childhood teacher students at the University of Helsinki.
2018 Keynote, Wolff L-A. Hållbar utveckling: Vägen från policy via lärarutbildning till daghem och skola (Sustainable development: The route from policy via teacher education to day care and school). University of Stavanger.
2018 Researcher exchange at the University of Stavanger, Department of Early Childhood Education. Lili-Ann Wolff, 03-07.12.2018, Stavanger.
2018-2020 SUSTE has organized open lectures with the project reference group members Ingrid Engdal (SU), Mari Ann-Letnes (NTNU) and Tarja Häikiö Karlsson (UG) as KEYNOTES.
Lili-Ann Wolff:
Ann-Christin Furu:
Hannah Kaihovirta: