Fulbright, Ron (2017). ASCUE 2067: How We Will Attend Posthumously. Association Supporting Computer Users in Education, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association Supporting Computer Users in Education (ASCUE) (50th, Myrtle Beach, SC, Jun 11-15, 2017). The ASCUE conference is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year making me wonder if we will be able to attend the 100th conference in 2067. By then, many of us may very well be biologically deceased. However, there is technology currently in development making it possible for a digital version of ourselves to attend not only the 2067 conference but also all future ASCUE conferences even after our biological bodies have expired. A new class of computer system able to perform human-level cognition, called cognitive systems is under development. When combined with advances in deep learning, natural language understanding, and big data analysis, a kind of intelligent virtual digital assistant we call a "cognitive colleague" will emerge. This type of cognitive system augments human intelligence by serving as the human's colleague and confidant for years, even decades. The next generation of researcher may engage with one or more of these cogs while developing his or her… [PDF]

Paige Kowalski (2024). Ensuring Student Data Privacy through Better Governance. State Education Standard, v24 n3. Everyone who uses student information has a responsibility to maintain students' privacy and the security of their data. Ensuring student data privacy is about so much more than complying with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). While privacy must be top of mind when thinking about collecting and using personally identifiable information, policymakers and educators owe it to students to also be thinking about how to use information to support them better. Statewide longitudinal data systems (SLDSs) connect data from early childhood through K-12, postsecondary, and the workforce. In some states, these systems also connect education and workforce data to individual-level data from other state agencies, such as health and human services. Such sharing gives policymakers cross-sector insights that answer their pressing policy questions and help them direct resources more efficiently. Most important, SLDSs can help individuals and local leaders make more informed… [Direct]

Scholten, Pat Creech (1977). Exploitation of Ethos: Sarah Winnemuca and Bright Eyes on the Lecture Tour. Western Journal of Speech Communication, 41, 4, 233-44, F 77. Studies the nature and effect of the rhetorical strategies of Sarah Winnemucca, a Paiute Indian (1878-1884), and Bright Eyes, \the Ponca Girl\ (1879-1882) who both served as spokeswomen for their tribes' struggles for Indian rights as citizens and human beings in post-Civil War America. (MH)…

Weaver, Hilary N. (1998). Indigenous People in a Multicultural Society: Unique Issues for Human Services. Social Work, v43 n3 p203-11 May. Human services providers must understand the rights and responsibilities of the governments involved with Native Americans. Their unique status and the practice implications of that status are examined. An overview of culturally competent social work is provided; specific issues such as historical trauma and sovereignty are explored. (Author/EMK)…

Kukulska-Hulme, Agnes (2018). Mobile Assistance for Personal Learning on a Massive Scale. Research-publishing.net Despite efforts to increase participation in education across the globe, it remains an inaccessible right for millions of children and adults. Mobile learning, and specifically 'mobile assistance', can provide personal support to learners when teachers are scarce or learners have pressing individual goals. MASELTOV was a project which implemented mobile assistance for migrants, comprising a suite of smartphone tools and services for orientation in a new environment and everyday language learning. Experiences gained from this project invite reflection on what are the unique qualities of teachers and human assistance. As we enter a new era of pervasive applications of artificial intelligence (AI), there are concerns that AI will encroach on the territory of the teacher. However, it is possible that intelligent assistants can be designed and used in such a way that they complement and enhance what human teachers are uniquely able to do. It is important to ask how less developed… [PDF]

Norton, Marian, Ed. (1988). Literacy for Living Conference Papers. Australian Council for Adult Literacy National Conference (12th, Brisbane, Australia, 1988). This document contains 43 papers on many aspects of adult literacy: "Literacy, Human Rights and Equality of Opportunity" (Einfeld); "Overcoming Illiteracy" (Marquet); "The Literacy Issue" (Crocker); "Literacy and Civil Liberties" (O'Gorman); "Designing a Tutor Training Program for Tutors of ESL" (Bowyer); "Catch the Spirit" (Stephens); "Reading, Writing, and Problem Solving" (Thiering); "Making the Band Aids Stick" (Bentley); "Two Minutes from Experiences of Literacy Campaign in Thailand" (Kaewsaiha); "Beghilos and the Pig Problem" (Hawke); "Issues in Adult Literacy" (Kindler); "Training Tutors for Adult Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Literacy/Numeracy Students" (Lewis); "Alice and the Magic Mushroom or an Adult Literacy Organiser in Townsville" (Barclay); "Overcoming Disabilities" (Hoskisson, Eden); "Positive Factors of…

Calude, Cristian; And Others (1989). New Information Technologies in Higher Education. Studies on the Introduction of New Information Technologies in Higher Education in the Europe Region. An overview of the current status of new information technologies (NIT) in teaching, training, research, and administration of higher education internationally includes 25 papers: "The Impact of NITS of Higher Education" (C. Calude and M. Malitza); "Educational Implications of Artificial Intelligence" (M.A. Boden); "On Theory of Knowledge" (L. Iliev); "Computer Technology and Education" (L. P. Steier); "New Information Technologies: The Role of Artificial Intelligence" (G. S. Pospelov); and "The Challenges of Cognitive Science and Information Technology to Human Rights and Values in University Life" (M. Pellery); "Computers at Stanford: An Overview" (P. Suppes); "The Use of the Personal Computer in Education at the University of Buckingham" (J. E. Galletly); "End User Computing–A Challenge for University Organization" (P. Baumgartner and S. Payr); "The Influence of Informatics and the Use… [PDF]

Brannon, Elizabeth M.; Chiang, Crystal; Park, Joonkoo; van den Berg, Berry; Woldorff, Marty G. (2018). Developmental Trajectory of Neural Specialization for Letter and Number Visual Processing. Developmental Science, v21 n3 May. Adult neuroimaging studies have demonstrated dissociable neural activation patterns in the visual cortex in response to letters (Latin alphabet) and numbers (Arabic numerals), which suggest a strong experiential influence of reading and mathematics on the human visual system. Here, developmental trajectories in the event-related potential (ERP) patterns evoked by visual processing of letters, numbers, and false fonts were examined in four different age groups (7-, 10-, 15-year-olds, and young adults). The 15-year-olds and adults showed greater neural sensitivity to letters over numbers in the left visual cortex and the reverse pattern in the right visual cortex, extending previous findings in adults to teenagers. In marked contrast, 7- and 10-year-olds did not show this dissociable neural pattern. Furthermore, the contrast of familiar stimuli (letters or numbers) versus unfamiliar ones (false fonts) showed stark ERP differences between the younger (7- and 10-year-olds) and the older… [Direct]

Ch√©rres, J. Sebasti√°n; Kimmel, Sue C.; Sachdeva, Danielle E. (2023). "It's Bigger than Just a Book Challenge": A Collective Case Study of Educators' Experiences with Censorship. Teachers College Record, v125 n6 p30-59 Jun. Background: Challenges to books are surging across the United States, and books that portray diverse human experiences are particularly targeted. Censorship has deleterious consequences, such as undermining children's intellectual freedom and influencing educators' book selections. In a climate of censorship, when educators face the realistic possibility of a challenge, diverse voices may be silenced, and real-world issues avoided. Despite the impact that book challenges have, the experiences of educators who have faced them are understudied. Purpose: This study investigates the self-reported experiences of seven educators who have been involved in book challenges within K-12 public schools within the United States. Its goal is to yield new insights about how educators perceive the experience of censorship and what resources they leverage as they defend children's right to read. It is significant because the lessons learned from these educators may be instructive for novice and… [Direct]

Carmo, Mafalda, Ed. (2021). Education and New Developments 2021. Online Submission This book contains the full text of papers and posters presented at the International Conference on Education and New Developments (END 2021), organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (W.I.A.R.S.), that this year had to be transformed into a fully Virtual Conference as a result of the Coronavirus (COVID 19) pandemic. Education, in our contemporary world, is a right since we are born. Every experience has a formative effect on the constitution of the human being, in the way one thinks, feels and acts. One of the most important contributions resides in what and how we learn through the improvement of educational processes, both in formal and informal settings. The International Conference seeks to provide some answers and explore the processes, actions, challenges and outcomes of learning, teaching and human development. The goal is to offer a worldwide connection between teachers, students, researchers and lecturers, from a wide range of academic fields,… [PDF]

Pickett, Anna Lou; And Others (1993). A Core Curriculum & Training Program To Prepare Paraeducators To Work in Inclusive Classrooms Serving School Age Students with Disabilities. These instructional materials are designed to improve the performance of paraeducators working with school-age students with disabilities in inclusive classrooms. The modules cover: (1) roles of paraeducators working in inclusive classrooms; (2) communication and team-building skills; (3) human and legal rights of children and youth with disabilities and their families; (4) human development; (5) the instructional process (individualized education plans, assessment, data collection, goals and objectives, instructional interventions, strategies for tutoring and reinforcing lessons, teaching reading, teaching arithmetic and mathematics, and teaching language arts); (6) appreciating diversity; and (7) emergency, health, and safety procedures. The format for the instructional modules includes: instructional objectives, equipment and resources required, suggested training activities and exercises, background information for the trainer, and handouts and transparencies. Training… [PDF]

Ellrod, Frederick E., III (1983). Synopsis of an Integrated Model of the Acting Person. The paper presents a summary of an integrated model of the moral agent, based on findings in philosophy, psychology, and education. The components of the model are cognition, affect, action, and community. Reasoning, the actor's emotional nature, free choice and character formation, and the development of the person within the social setting are all crucial components in the formation of the moral agent. The interaction of these various elements can be seen in the example of an employer deciding whether to use racial factors to discriminate among job applicants. In coming to a decision on this problem the employer has many opportunities to recognize the problem, to deliberate carefully, and to act in a way that considers the human good. Understanding right and wrong action requires understanding all aspects of the model. (IS)… [PDF]

Flores, Isabel; And Others (1974). Instructional Film Units. This booklet is a compendium of instructional units designed to supplement and thereby increase the effectiveness of 39 16mm films related to Mexican American studies available on loan from the Mexican American Curriculum Office. Units and films deal with a variety of topics such as applying for a job; arts, crafts, and architecture of Mexico; Chicanos; Hispanic heritage; cultural conflicts; human geography; civil rights; social problems; and intercultural education. Each unit contains a brief description of the film, suggestions for preparation before viewing it, a list of the concepts developed in the film, followup discussion questions to aid the teacher in analyzing the film, followup activities and projects to allow students to do more indepth study on individual topics, and additional resources to supplement each unit. (JR)… [PDF]

McLaren, J. (1977). Theoretical Aspects of the Educational Rights of the Child. Unicorn, 3, 1, 25-35, Mar 77. Argues the case for the educational right of the child to be recognized as a human being and be given the right of choice, and for teachers to have authority over the environment, not the individual. Available from: Australian College of Education, 916 Swanston Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia, $2.50 single copy. (Author/MLF)…

Amanpreet Kaur; Sheojee Singh (2022). Emotional Intelligence of High School Students in Relation to Their Spiritual Intelligence. Issues and Ideas in Education, v10 n2 p83-90. Background: Emotional intelligence and spiritual intelligence are accompaniment to each other for refining human life. Spiritual intelligence builds up moral value, spiritual values and a strong belief system whereas emotional intelligence helps to develop personal relationships with one's own self, social relationships with others and to manage the emotions. Purpose: The high school students are facing a major burst of emotions which needs to be channelized to give them the right direction in life. In this, their emotional intelligence and spiritual intelligence play an imperative role. Present research paper is an attempt to explore the relationship between emotional intelligence and spiritual intelligence of high school students. It examines how the spiritual intelligence affects the emotional intelligence of the students. Methods: This research is carried out on 150 students of 9th standard CBSE affiliated schools. For data collection, Spiritual Intelligence Scales by Misra… [PDF]

Haren, Kate Van (2019). Belle Case La Follette: A Study in Leadership in the Suffrage Movement. Social Studies and the Young Learner, v31 n3 p3-6 Jan-Feb. On August 18, 2020, The United States will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment which gave women the vote. Belle La Follette played an important role in helping women gain the right to vote guaranteed in this amendment. She advocated for women in her home state of Wisconsin and across the country. This article describes a lesson that used the C3 Framework and Inquiry Design Model (IDM) to assist teachers in creating a student driven lesson that used primary sources to study how an individual with many strengths and a few human flaws created social changes. Certainly, Belle is not the only leader who is worthy of in-depth study. This inquiry lesson can be replicated to conduct student research about significant, but unrecognized, historical figures from all time periods and geographic locations. The students showed they were capable of a rigorous study of the accomplishments and tribulations of a significant historical figure…. [Direct]

Berger, Anja; Dreisbach, Gesine; Fischer, Rico; Fr√∂ber, Kerstin (2019). Unexpected Conflict Signals Loom Larger in a Positive Context: Evidence from Context Specific Control Adjustments. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, v45 n8 p1398-1409 Aug. One prominent feature of adaptive cognition in humans is the ability to flexibly adjust to changing task demands. In this respect, context-specific proportion congruency (CSPC) effects describe the phenomenon that participants learn to adapt to contexts of frequently occurring conflicts even when the upcoming context cannot be anticipated. Here, we aim to provide evidence that such CSPC effects strongly depend on the affective valence of the context. Participants had to categorize pictures as animals versus humans (Experiment 1), words as male versus female (Experiment 2), and food pictures as depicting cold or hot dishes/beverages (Experiment 3). Stimuli were laterally presented to the left or right, creating Simon-like response interference. Half of the stimuli were of positive valence, half of negative valence with valence always being task-irrelevant. Positive or negative stimuli were associated with a high proportion of incongruent trials and a low proportion of congruent… [Direct]

Kenklies, Karsten (2019). The Eternal Flower of the Child: the Recognition of Childhood in Zeami's Educational Theory of "Noh" Theatre. Educational Philosophy and Theory, v51 n12 p1227-1236. European theorists of childhood still tend to locate the first positive acknowledgements of childhood as a human developmental period in its own positive right between the 16th and 18th century in Europe. Even though the findings of Ari√®s have been constantly challenged, it still remains a commonplace, especially within the history of education, to refer to Jean-Jacques Rousseau of the 18th century as one of the earliest and most prominent conceptualisers of childhood as a positive period that must not be evaluated in the light of its distance to adulthood but for its inherent value as an important and unmissable period of human life. Such a view is as unhistorical as it is biased and eurocentred. This article endeavours to shed at least a small light on the history of education and of childhood outwith the usual focus. The central objects of examination are the theoretical treatises of Zeami Motokiyo regarding the Noh theatre which have long been recognised as one of the great… [Direct]

Harvey, David C. (1994). Confidentiality and Public Policy Regarding Children with HIV Infection. Journal of School Health, v64 n1 p18-19 Jan. Addresses the relationship between law and policy, examining significant gains in establishing legal precedents for protecting the educational rights of children with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection in confronting HIV-related discrimination. The article looks at legal principles of confidentiality, disclosure, negligence and potential liability, and school notification status. (SM)…

Musthafa, M. N. Mohamedunni Alias; Varghese, Jijo (2021). Why the Optimism Misses? An Analysis on the Gaps and Lags of Teachers' Perceptions of 21st Century Skills. Shanlax International Journal of Education, v10 n1 p68-75 Dec. The present century demands transformative competencies in all spheres of human life and this necessitated the evolution of a new civil right in the modern era. Inevitably, this demands for new sets of skills and competencies in the learners to meet the challenges and competitions of the knowledge economy, labor market and information settings. To build the 21st century skills and competencies in the learners, teachers need to have awareness and knowledge about these skills and apply them in their daily classroom activities. In order to execute the strategies for promoting 21st century skills among learners, a clear perception on the same is highly essential. It is interesting to analyze the perception of the teachers and the missing gaps. This study was conducted to examine the gap between the actual and ideal perception of 21st century skills among secondary school teachers of Kerala. It also examined to what extent their age, teaching experience and subjects have been related to… [PDF]

Agusiobo, Benedicta Chiwokwu (2018). Education of the Girl-Child in Nigeria for a Just, Peaceful, Harmonious Society and Sustainable Development. International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, v5 n4 p768-786. International instruments, declarations and local laws set the pace for appropriate human development, peace and harmony. 10.5 million children in Nigeria are out of school; approximately 60 percent are girls (UNICEF, 2014). They are dropouts due to various factors: socio-cultural, economic, governance etc. vulnerable to forms of abuses, harms-female genital mutilation, insurgency effects and other negative influences which deny her rights and dignity are discussed. Assessments of education statistics at basic education level over (1990-2010) revealed imbalances in enrolments and gender disparity in favour of males and the education statistics from 2014 to 2016, revealed increases in enrolments and a gender parity index ranging from 0.80 to 1.0. Various government efforts and interventions by international development partners to bridge the gender gap and heal the harms are enumerated. Benefits of educating the girl child which are critical for the development of a just, peaceful,… [PDF]

Bailey, Richard (2020). Educating with Brain, Body and World Together. Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, v51 n3 p277-291 Sep. It seems reasonable to suppose that educational practices should be informed by philosophical and scientific understandings of the character and operation of mental processes. Clark and Chambers' 1998 'The Extended Mind' is a seminal paper in the philosophy of mind, but has received limited attention by educational researchers. Their Extended Mind Theory (EMT) provocatively claims that the assumption the mind is restricted to the head is unjustified, and that objects in the environment can function as parts of the mind. Clark and Chamber wrote that the human organism can be "linked with an external entity in a two-way interaction, creating a coupled system that can be seen as a cognitive system in its own right". So, EMT challenges the assumption that the demarcation of skin and skull determines the boundaries of cognition, and demands a radical rethink of the nature of learning. This paper introduces and critiques EMT, initially by way of a discussion of embodiment, an… [Direct]

Gallagher, Ashleigh; Gallagher, Patrick (2020). The Portable PhD: Taking Your Psychology Career beyond Academia. APA Books Thanks to your graduate training in psychology you have the skills to do great work in fields such as public policy, education, healthcare, and business. But to make a successful transition into non-academic employment, the right mindset is essential. In this guidebook, you will explore common unspoken assumptions and attitudes in academia, and use them to prepare for different work cultures. You will also learn to build your network, as you identify a career path that matches your interests. Each chapter in this book offers tips and key terms for navigating various kinds of employment, as well as simple action steps for communicating your talents to hiring managers. Your ability to conduct research, to understand statistics and perform data analysis, and to perform technical or scientific writing are all highly valuable skills, as are the insights into human nature you have gained from your psychology studies, and your ability to think innovatively and work cooperatively in a… [Direct]

Abaci, Serdar; Pershing, James A. (2017). Research and Theory as Necessary Tools for Organizational Training and Performance Improvement Practitioners. TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, v61 n1 p19-25 Jan. Human Performance Technology (HPT) is the applied study and practice of improving organizational performance through training and non-training interventions. For practitioners working in this area that identify themselves as an HPT practitioner, organizational training and performance (OTP) specialist, or instructional designer–offering the right intervention set requires understanding of how humans work and function internally and within organizations that are bounded by environmental, societal, and economic realities. The HPT field is rooted in a multi-disciplinary knowledge base and has its own models and theories, which are generally developed by practitioners to guide their practice. Because HPT follows a systematic, data-driven process akin to action research, HPT practitioners are applied researchers even if they do not see themselves as such. What we need is more collaboration between scholars, practitioners, professional associations, and businesses to create a culture of… [Direct]

Autto, Janne; Lundkvist, Marina; Nyby, Josefine; Nyg√•rd, Mikael (2017). From Universalism to Selectivity? The Background, Discourses and Ideas of Recent Early Childhood Education and Care Reforms in Finland. Early Child Development and Care, v187 n10 p1543-1556. Universal public childcare for children under seven has been central in Finland since the mid-1990s, capacitating both gender equality and children's human capital and wellbeing. In 2015, as a further step in the development of this system, early learning and childhood pedagogy was strengthened through the early childhood education and care (ECEC) reform (statute 580/2015). Some months later, however, the right to full-day ECEC was restricted to children with employed parents (statute 108/2016). This paper discusses the objectives, framing and ideational drivers of these reforms on the basis of government bills and parliamentary debates. We argue that the development reflects a shift in emphasis from a universal and child-oriented social mobility ECEC rationale to a more austere rationale focussing on parents' and notably mothers' employment. We believe that the reforms will have negative effects on the quality of ECEC and increase inequalities in children's human capital and learning…. [Direct]

Deb, Paromita (2022). Nuances of the Unique and Evolving Conceptualisation of Intellectual Disability in India: A Study of the Changing Artistic Parlance of Representing Intellectually Disabled People in Mainstream Hindi Cinema. British Journal of Learning Disabilities, v50 n2 p166-177 Jun. Owing to the different models of disablement in different religions and cultures around the world, social and aesthetic representations of intellectually disabled people are diverse in various societies. Disability is perceived in a different way in India than in the West. There are very few studies on the complex role of Indian mainstream Hindi cinema in the representation of intellectual and developmental disabilities in India. This paper explores the potential of shifting representations of intellectual and developmental disability in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century Bollywood films in the context of multiple aesthetic challenges they pose. The shift in screen image of intellectual impairment is strongly related to the shifting and ambiguous sociocultural model of personhood in India. In earlier Indian Hindi films, characters with intellectual disabilities were depicted in terms of good/bad moralistic labels, compromised body image, leading to aesthetic… [Direct]

Quennerstedt, Ann; Quennerstedt, Mikael (2014). Researching Children's Rights in Education: Sociology of Childhood Encountering Educational Theory. British Journal of Sociology of Education, v35 n1 p115-132. This paper aims to explore and develop a theoretical approach for children's rights research in education formed through an encounter between the sociology of childhood and John Dewey's educational theory. The interest is mainly methodological, in the sense that the primary ambition of the investigation is to suggest a fruitful and useful theoretical base for formulating research problems and undertaking research in children's rights in education. The paper argues that, particularly in educational settings, research into children's rights can and must be attributed to children both as full-status humans in a socio-politically contextual present, and as continually growing and changing, immature and dependent humans. From the theoretical encounter suggested in the paper, the much-used distinction of the child as either "being" or "becoming" can be reconsidered, and another point of departure for the study of children's rights issues in education can be discerned…. [Direct]

Jung, Wendy P.; Kahrs, Bj√∂rn Alexander; Lockman, Jeffrey J. (2014). When Does Tool Use Become Distinctively Human? Hammering in Young Children. Child Development, v85 n3 p1050-1061 May-Jun. This study examines the development of hammering within an ontogenetic and evolutionary framework using motion-capture technology. Twenty-four right-handed toddlers (19-35 months) wore reflective markers while hammering a peg into a peg-board. The study focuses on the motor characteristics that make tool use uniquely human: wrist involvement, lateralization, and handle use. Older children showed more distally controlled movements, characterized by relatively more reliance on the wrist, but only when hammering with their right hand. Greater age, use of the right hand, and more wrist involvement were associated with higher accuracy; handle use did not systematically change with age. Collectively, the results provide new insights about the emergence of hammering in young children and when hammering begins to manifest distinctively human characteristics…. [Direct]

Ellis, Mark (2020). Interracial Cooperation and Southern Education between the Wars: Robert B. Eleazer and the Conference on Education and Race Relations. American Educational History Journal, v47 n2 p143-159. Robert Burns Eleazer (1877-1973), a liberal white Methodist from Tennessee, served as the education director and director of publicity of the Atlanta-based Commission on Interracial Cooperation (CIC) from 1922 to 1942. As education director, he developed a strategy for improving race relations which entailed offering prizes to young people in the southern states for essays on racial minorities in American life and culture. Eleazer's role as the CIC's director of publicity meant constant communication with regional and national journals about lynching and its prevention, poverty, migration, policing, and justice in the courts. He also attempted to radically alter the social studies and civics curriculum in southern education. This article attempts to shed light on the CIC's education work and Eleazer's role and motives in devising and distributing his programs. It also shows how a regional effort to alter the outlook of a new generation concerning respect and human equality predated… [Direct]

H. Skarstein, Tuula; Skarstein, Frode; Wolff, Lili-Ann (2020). The Mission of Early Childhood Education in the Anthropocene. Education Sciences, v10 Article 27. During the last century, the human way of life has begun to transgress many of the Earth's biophysical boundaries in an alarming way. The consequences of this are more dramatic and long lasting than ever before. Many researchers even argue that humanity has created a new geological epoch, which they call "Anthropocene". Education, even in early childhood (EC), is often presented as a remedy for these complex problems. Yet, how can anyone prepare young children to deal with such tremendous changes? The primary aim of our study is to define and outline what the mission of early childhood education (ECE) might be in the epoch of the Anthropocene. Through a comprehensive review of the literature, we have tried to find answers about how the Anthropocene could be addressed in ECE. We have searched for answers in the natural science literature, policy documents, educational research articles and philosophy, and discuss the various standpoints we have identified. We argue that the… [PDF]