EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABILITY ENTREPRENEURSHIP

In the last few years, early childhood education for sustainability entrepreneurship, education for sustainable development (ESD) has developed in a growing manner, as a field of compilation between education of early childhood and education for sustainability entrepreneurship. At the core of this concept stands the preschool child, as an active citizen for sustainability and entrepreneurship. Consequently, education for sustainability entrepreneurship, in our case, focuses mainly on preschool children's contributions to sustainability, outlining key recent developments in this field. These ideas represent the foundation on which the current article will be built. The main aim of this article is to analyze the ideas of preschool parents concerning sustainability, entrepreneurship with regards to the 3 pillars of Sustainable Development (Environmental, Economical, and Social Cultural) and with major focus on the 7R's. In this respect, a quantitative analysis, a questionnaire regarding ideas of preschool parents on sustainable development, has been carried out, with data being collected from 174 preschool parents attending two different public preschools, one in rural environment, another in the urban environment, supervised by the Ministry of National Education of Romania in Prahova district. The outcome of this research proved that preschool parents and their children value nature and environment.