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Investing in Children for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals in Turkey: Case of Eco-School Program

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Abstract

Children can easily generalize the information they have learned at an early age for their entire life. In this respect, the kindergarten age emerges as the golden years for them in terms of instilling environmental awareness. As the protection of the natural environment is a vital issue for achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the investment into children in the context of a sustainable environmental policy can provide a better return for SDGs. The Foundation for Environmental Education is the founder of the “Eco-School program” established on a global scale, which was initiated to provide environmental awareness in children and contribute to sustainable development through families, schools, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and businesses partners. The foundation defines the program as a most comprehensive project, global and sustainable by design, and it also includes sample applications in Turkey. This chapter firstly evaluates the efforts and needs of Turkey to achieve the SDGs by scrutinizing a variety of official national policy reports, triangulating this with academic literature on the subject. Then, the chapter deals with the concepts of policy networks and policy mapping in producing sustainable national environmental policies and explores the importance of investing in children for a sustainable environmental policy in Turkey. Environmental education given to children at an early age is identified as a priority policy in terms of investment in children while presenting the “Eco-School program” as a tool. In this context, the chapter conducts qualitative research consisting of in-depth interviews with “Eco-School program” coordinators and kindergarten teachers as well as content analysis on the sampled kindergartens’ annual activity reports. The chapter concludes that the program, which is implemented by many preschools (such as kindergartens) and primary education settings worldwide, has a great potential to be an essential tool in raising environmental awareness in children at an early age though it also has various points open to further development and improvement.

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    Volkan Göçoğlu

  2. Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Suleyman Demirel University, Isparta, Turkey

    İpek Didem Göçoğlu

  3. Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

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Göçoğlu, V., Göçoğlu, İ.D., Öktem, M.K. (2022). Investing in Children for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals in Turkey: Case of Eco-School Program. In: Leal Filho, W., Dinis, M.A.P., Moggi, S., Price, E., Hope, A. (eds) SDGs in the European Region . Implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals – Regional Perspectives. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91261-1_15-1

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  • Print ISBN: 978-3-030-91261-1

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