Children, learning and environmental education

In my doctoral thesis comprising artefact and exegesis, I developed a creative nonfiction children’s picture book, for introductory environmental education, titled ‘My Life is in the Toilet,’ utilising composite photography of amphibians and the degradation of their habitat in concert with text. This book acquaints learners with science and promotes habitat conservation, species perpetuation and global sustainable management. My methodology employed autoethnography and narrativity, emphasizing imagination as a link between the arts and science, to advance the respective roles of humour, empathic intelligence, ecological consciousness, and sentient ecology. Conclusions are drawn about criteria for effective environmental education in picture books. My project demonstrates that the plight of one frog affects humanity, as amphibian species are presently threatened worldwide with mass extinction.