This literature review describes and analyses 19 peer-reviewed scholarly articles published between 2015 and 2020 that focus on the notion of the Anthropocene in early childhood education. The review is guided by two pairs of analytical concepts stemming from environmental history and the sociology of childhood. The results of the analyses are presented under the themes ‘entangled children of the Anthropocene’ and ‘extraordinary children of the Anthropocene’. These two categories of children recur in the reviewed articles, and a discussion follows about how these children pose different challenges to the purpose of education in the Anthropocene. The review concludes by noting research gaps in the current literature that would benefit from further analysis in future studies in the early childhood education field.

这篇文献综述描述并分析了2015年至2020年之间发表的19篇经同行评审的学术文章，这些文章侧重于幼儿教育中的人类世观。回顾是基于两对来自环境历史和儿童社会学的分析概念进行的。分析结果以“人类世间纠缠的孩子”和“人类世间非同寻常的孩子”为主题。这两类儿童在复习的文章中再次出现，然后讨论这些儿童如何对人类世界的教育目标提出不同的挑战。回顾的最后是指出当前文献中的研究空白，这些空白将受益于早期儿童教育领域中未来研究的进一步分析。