Towards Communities of Compassion: Exploring What Affords a Compassion Enabling Environment in Early Childhood Education

随着对地球福祉的日益关注，在幼儿教育中培养同情心的情感能力对福祉、全球公民身份和可持续性具有高度的全球相关性。然而，缺乏关于同情心如何在欧洲经委会“环境”的人的和非人的方面实现的知识，而环境本身是学习和发展的组成部分。这项研究通过关注ECE环境中儿童和实践者的同情心体验来填补这一研究空白。其目的是通过探讨欧洲经委会环境为体验同情心提供哪些机会以及这方面的障碍，为实践、教学和课程提供积极的变化。此外，它的目的是说明什么构成了有利于同情心的环境，并就此提供了加强实践的建议。这项及时的研究将与FORMISH项目合作，作出重大贡献，解决日常社会和环境背景对心理健康的影响；最近提出的关于欧洲经委会更加重视福祉的建议，并根据可持续发展目标4.7，帮助欧洲经委会采取可持续发展和全球公民教育的方法。这项深入伦理和关注变革的行为学研究创新地适应了参与者的年龄和研究现象。它将使用一种理论集合和多地点的现象学人种学方法，包括参与者观察和半结构访谈。对调查结果的主题分析将使用VanManen的生活世界存在作为分析框架，并提供建议，这些建议将在焦点小组中咨询。

With increasing concern for planetary well-being, fostering thesocio-emotional competency of compassion in Early Childhood Education(ECE) is of high global relevance to well-being, global citizenship andsustainability. However, there is a lack of knowledge regarding howcompassion is realised in context of both human and non-human aspectsof the ECE 'environment', which itself is integral to learning anddevelopment. This study fills this research gap by focusing on the livedexperience of compassion for both children and practitioners within ECEsettings. Its aims to inform positive change in practice, pedagogy andcurriculum by exploring what opportunities ECE environments afford forexperiencing compassion and the barriers to this. In addition, it aims toilluminate what constitutes a compassion enabling environment andprovide recommendations for practice enhancement regarding this. Incollaboration with the Flourish Project this timely study will make asignificant contribution by addressing the influence of daily social andenvironmental contexts on mental health; recent recommendationsregarding increased focus on well-being in ECE and help informapproaches to sustainability and global citizenship education within ECEin light of sustainable development goal 4.7. Deeply ethical andconcerned with transformative change, this praxeological study isinnovatively suited to the age of participants and phenomenon of study.It will use a theoretical assemblage and multi-sited phenomenologicalethnographic methodology involving participant observation and semi structuredinterviews. Thematic analysis of the findings will use vanManen's lifeworld existentials as an analytical frame and inform therecommendations which will be consulted upon in focus groups.