Abstract:

Preschool children’s education for sustainable development emerges as a major concern of contemporaneity both in theoretical and practical fields. This current article focuses on the growing attention to the practice of early childhood education in direct connection to sustainable development. The study reviews contemporary developments in preschool children’s education as related to sustainability, a field which is constantly growing, the main aim being to respond to nowadays concerns of sustainable development, from early childhood. Education for sustainability, in our case, focuses mainly on preschool children’s contributions to sustainability. These ideas represent the foundation on which the current article will be built. The main aim of the article is to analyze preschool children’s ideas concerning sustainability, with regards to the 3 pillars of Sustainable Development (Environmental, Economical, and Social Cultural) and with major focus on the 7R’s. In this respect, a quantitative analysis regarding preschool children’s ideas on sustainable development was conducted, being collected data from 56 preschool children attending two different public preschools supervised by the Ministry of National Education of Romania in Prahova district. The outcomes of this research proved that preschool children value nature and environment.