New 17 Aims of Sustainable Development (UN 2015) came into life on January 1st, 2016. These aims have task to change our world. Next 15 years - till year 2030 - will be years to take action for good of people, planet, time for... [ view full abstract ]
New 17 Aims of Sustainable Development (UN 2015) came into life on January 1st, 2016. These aims have task to change our world. Next 15 years - till year 2030 - will be years to take action for good of people, planet, time for determined and transforming steps to change the world for more sustainable.
There are many good practices in early education in Poland relating to idea of sustainable development but it must be underlined that education for sustainable development is not nature or ecological education. Such simplification changes the whole sense of the idea (Lewandowska 2016).
Education evolution in direction of creation of sustainable future - to live in sustainable way - can be achieved by orienting on such values as understanding, participation, involvement, solidarity, respect to others, learning in interaction and dialog, responsibility or shared construction of meanings necessary to build civil society. "How to help Polish to be shaped into community of autonomous persons able to individual managing coincidences and fast modernist changes but same time to cooperate at all levels for collective vision of development, to keep national identity but also to include us into international communities" (Kwieciński, 2013, p.2). Answers to these questions can be found by appealing to idea of sustainable development (Bałachowicz, 2016).
Process of changes "front the top" will be visible in scientific theories and program basics. The change "from the bottom" will be daily pedagogical work, "depend on everyone of us" (Michalak, 2016). During the address pioneering actions in Poland for promoting ESD in early education idea will be presented: actions of college education future teachers of early education and actions amongst currently working teachers being thought to change practice.
Keywords: communities, early education, ESD, practice, theory
