Common professional focus area for student kindergartens 2023-2025:
Together into the future - sustainability in the kindergarten
Children should learn to take care of themselves, each other, and nature. Sustainable development includes nature, economy, and social conditions, and is a prerequisite for preserving life on Earth as we know it. Therefore, the kindergarten has an important task in promoting values, attitudes, and practices for more sustainable societies.
Sustainable development is about ensuring that people living today have their basic needs met without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. It’s about thinking and acting locally, nationally, and globally.
The kindergarten should contribute to helping children understand that today’s actions have consequences for the future.
The kindergarten should lay the foundation for children’s ability to think critically, act ethically, and show solidarity. Children should experience giving care and taking care of their surroundings and nature.
For Sámi children, this means living in harmony with, utilizing, and harvesting from nature.
Children should have nature experiences and become familiar with nature's diversity, and the kindergarten should help the children feel a sense of belonging to nature.
Student kindergartens should have a conscious approach to sustainability in relation to purchases and consumption. We should facilitate reuse where possible. We aim to promote values, attitudes, and practices for more sustainable societies. We also do this by providing children with positive nature experiences and familiarizing them with nature's diversity. We see this as central to the development of an environmentally conscious person.
You can read more about the focus area in the shared operational plan for student kindergartens in Tromsø, as well as in the kindergarten’s annual plan and yearly schedule.
