Early Childhood Inclusion in Aotearoa New Zealand

Autor/inn/en	Foster-Cohen, Susan H.; van Bysterveldt, Anne K.
Titel	Early Childhood Inclusion in Aotearoa New Zealand
Quelle	In: Infants and Young Children, 29 (2016) 3, S.214-222 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0896-3746
DOI	10.1097/IYC.0000000000000070
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Early Childhood Education; Inclusion; Developmental Disabilities; Developmental Delays; Barriers; Teacher Education; Educational Policy; Financial Support; Specialists; Paraprofessional School Personnel; Educational Practices; Child Development; Educational Change; Culturally Relevant Education; Curriculum Development; New Zealand + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Inklusion; Entwicklungsstörung; Entwicklungsverzögerung; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Finanzielle Förderung; Bildungspraxis; Kindesentwicklung; Bildungsreform; Curriculum; Development; Curriculumentwicklung; Lehrplan; Entwicklung; Neuseeland
Abstract	Early childhood education is encouraged for all 3- to 5-year-old children in New Zealand (known in the Maori language as Aotearoa) and is supported by a well-constructed bicultural curriculum (Te Whariki) and reasonably generous government funding. However, a number of factors mitigate against inclusion of children with developmental delays and disabilities. These include a lack of training for early childhood teachers; no requirement for Early Childhood Centers to have policies of inclusion; funding and support arrangements based on age rather than developmental stage; a lack of sufficient specialist and paraprofessional support; and a strong sociocultural approach to early childhood education that is often at odds with the need for active support of child development. These barriers to inclusion are surprising, given the quality of the curriculum, the government-supported levels of oversight and quality assessment, and the strong rights-driven research tradition across the nation's universities. The most pressing need is for significant changes to the preservice and in-service teacher education programs to ensure that the responsibility for inclusion is shouldered by the whole profession and the potential of Te Whariki can be realized. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01