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The aimconcept of sustainability is one of the researchfour concepts in the geography curriculum along with spatial organizations and processes, spatial identity and spatial coverage. The very concept of sustainability is topresent findin the benefitssubject description, values and principles of learning and teaching geography and in the educational goals of learning and teaching geography. Through the analysis of the curriculum of the Geography subject for educators, early educationprimary and caresecondary studentsschools (ECE),in primarythe schoolRepublic teachersof andCroatia, out of a wider grouptotal of educators97 fromoutcomes, using28 of them related to the ECEconcept Academyof applicationsustainability andwere singled out, whether these outcomes were exclusively related to this concept (12), or they were partially represented along with some of the courseremaining Sustainabilityconcepts from(16) considering the Start,frequent and to investigate how collaborative learninginterweaving of educatorsconcepts usingin thespace. applicationThe affects theirstudents' perception of the concept of sustainability andin currentgeography practices.lessons Usingwas investigated using a transformativequantitative theoreticalanalysis paradigm,based thison studya placesquestionnaire. itselfThe atresults showed that students recognize the intersectionconcept of researchsustainability on education for sustainable development, early childhood pedagogy, and children's rights (Ranta, 2023) to further examine how such a collaborative learning experience for educators can promote education for sustainable development for early childhood children. A combination of qualitative and quantitative methodological approaches (Denzin & Lincoln, 2018) were used, including first-hand perspectives, individual expertise, as well as interviews with RPOO practitioners and professors and students using the app and course. The data were collected using the technique of individual and group interviews and a questionnaire constructed for the purpose of research. 10 educators (from Croatia, the Czech Republic, France, Ireland and Sweden) participatedmost in the focusfield groups.of Individual interviewseconomy and questionnaireenvironment, surveyand are still ongoing. The final results will be presented at the STOO 4 conference. The participants took partless in the researchsocial voluntarilyfield. They mostly associate it with the contents of biogeography, economic geography, demogeography and wereurban informedgeography, and they recognize it the least when teaching about certain economic branches in Croatia, especially tourism and agriculture. They think that theylearning couldabout withdrawsustainability fromwill participationhelp atthem anyunderstand time.the Thechanges contributionthat ofwill educators, students and professorshappen in the coursefuture Sustainabilityand fromdefine their own relationship with nature. They are of the Startopinion shouldthat leadthrough tosustainable theirmanagement professionalof developmentnatural resources and asustainable bettereconomic understandingdevelopment, Croatia can improve the living standards of sustainabilityits population and itspreserve placethe inmost earlyvaluable childhoodnatural education.sites for future generations.
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