‘Belonging’ in Australian early childhood education and care curriculum and quality assurance: opportunities and risks

Jennifer Sumsion; Linda Harrison; Karen Letsch; Benjamin Sylvester Bradley; Matthew Stapleton

doi:10.1177/1463949118796239

‘Belonging’ in Australian early childhood education and care curriculum and quality assurance: opportunities and risks

Jennifer Sumsion^*, Linda Harrison, Karen Letsch, Benjamin Sylvester Bradley, Matthew Stapleton

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Abstract

This article considers opportunities and risks arising from the prominence of the belonging motif in Australia’s Early Years Learning Framework and, more implicitly, in the National Quality Standard, against which the quality of the early childhood education and care services is assessed. A vignette constructed from case study data generated in the babies’ room in an early childhood centre in an Aboriginal community in rural Queensland is used to illuminate some of these opportunities and risks.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	340-355
Number of pages	16
Journal	Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood
Volume	19
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1463949118796239
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2018
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Aboriginal perspectives
belonging
co-production
Early Years Learning Framework
Indigenous perspectives
National Quality Standard

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‘Belonging’ in Australian early childhood education and care curriculum and quality assurance: opportunities and risks

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