Environmental Awareness in Preschool Childrens Drawings: A Global Perspective [Hardcover]

This edited volume investigates multiple perspectives of environmental meaning-making among children by evaluating preschool childrens drawings on the environment. It critically traces the formation of early attitudes towards the environment before childrens exposure to formal environmental education. Similarities and differences are explored among preschool children's drawings across diverse cultural and geographic backgrounds. Over five sections covering Morocco, Indonesia, Nigeria, Iraq, and Argentina, each one examines the factors affecting children's environmental drawings, such as age, gender, and geography.

Using different theoretical frameworks, the chapters are written by researchers of environmental discourse and ecolinguistics with a background knowledge in environmental studies from a social science perspective. This book is of interest to researchers interested in ecolinguistics and socio-semiotics fields of study. This seminal book also paves the way for further research on preschool environmental education.

Chapter 1. Environmental Education in Morocco, Argentina, Nigeria, Iraq, and Indonesia.- Chapter 2. Environmental Awareness in Moroccan Preschool Childrens Eco-drawings: A Socio-Semiotic Approach.- Chapter 3. Constructing Argentina: The Scaffolding System in Childrens Narratives about Nature.- Chapter 4. Are you aware enough of feeding birds, sweetie? A Semiotic View on Environmental Awareness in Iraqi Preschool Childrens Drawings.- Chapter 5. A Sociosemiotic Analysis of Projections of Environmental Awareness in Selected Nigerian Pre-Primary School Childrens Eco-Drawings.- Chapter 6. Environmental Awareness of Pre-School Children in Indonesia through Nature Drawings.- Chapter 7. General Conclusion.

Dr. Mohamed Mliless holdsl³¢