Cultural inclusion

$22.55

By Melinda G. Miller

All children have a right to experience a sense of belonging in early childhood settings. A sense of belonging ensures that children see their culture, identity and language reflected in their daily program. As parents/carers and educators, it is important to understand the critical role you play in supporting the attitudes and behaviours that demonstrate respect for diversity and difference.

This Everyday Learning Series title discusses how early childhood can be a critical time for children to develop empathy and attitudes that challenge assumptions and biases about people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, and how you can support cultural inclusion.

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All children have a right to experience a sense of belonging in early childhood settings. Early childhood is a critical time for children to develop empathy and attitudes that challenge assumptions and biases about people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds. As parents/carers and educators, it is important to understand the critical role you play in supporting the attitudes and behaviours that demonstrate respect for diversity and difference.

This Everyday Learning Series title looks at:

  • the role of parents/carers and community
  • racial literacy and racism in early childhood education
  • cultural competence and growing up in multicultural Australia
  • Indigenous Australia as a starting point for cultural competence
  • conscious and unconscious bias
  • cultural inclusion and its barriers.

About the Everyday Learning Series:

Early Childhood Australia’s Everyday Learning Series acknowledges that the most important early learning happens through day-to-day life experiences and provides ideas and strategies on ways educators and families can make the most of these experiences to support children’s development. By ‘making the ordinary, extraordinary’, the Everyday Learning Series is an invaluable resource for educators, students of early education, beginning practitioners, and families by assisting them in maximising young children’s play, exploration and discovery, and development within learning environments.

Subscribe to the Everyday Learning Series:

The Everyday Learning Series (EDL) is a 12 month, four-issue subscription. Subscribers also receive bonus online resources which may be shared with educators and families. Learn more here. 

ECA offers libraries and institutions a perpetual access fee. Please contact ECA directly on 1800 356 900 (free call) to obtain the licensing agreement or to order.

Additional information

Weight 0.103 kg
Dimensions 17.3 × 24.5 cm
ISBN

9781863230469

ISBN 10

1862320467

Pages

28

Format

Paperback, e-version