TY - JOUR
T1 - 'Embracing everybody'
T2 - approaching the inclusive early childhood education of a child labelled with autism from a social relational understanding of disability
AU - Mackenzie, Meike
AU - Cologon, Kathy
AU - Fenech, Marianne
PY - 2016/6
Y1 - 2016/6
N2 - This study investigated educators’ attitudes towards the inclusion of a child labelled with autism in a mainstream early childhood education and care (ECEC) setting in Australia. The article provides an overview of three perspectives from which disability in inclusive early childhood education can be approached: the medical model of disability, the social model of disability and the social relational understanding of disability. Findings showed that when educators’ beliefs and practices aligned with a social relational understanding of disability, inclusion for a child labelled with autism was facilitated. It is argued that inclusion in early childhood settings can be fostered when educators recognise and dismantle barriers to doing and barriers to being, and view inclusion as ordinary practice.
AB - This study investigated educators’ attitudes towards the inclusion of a child labelled with autism in a mainstream early childhood education and care (ECEC) setting in Australia. The article provides an overview of three perspectives from which disability in inclusive early childhood education can be approached: the medical model of disability, the social model of disability and the social relational understanding of disability. Findings showed that when educators’ beliefs and practices aligned with a social relational understanding of disability, inclusion for a child labelled with autism was facilitated. It is argued that inclusion in early childhood settings can be fostered when educators recognise and dismantle barriers to doing and barriers to being, and view inclusion as ordinary practice.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85024476251&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/183693911604100202
DO - 10.1177/183693911604100202
M3 - Article
VL - 41
SP - 4
EP - 12
JO - Australasian Journal of Early Childhood
JF - Australasian Journal of Early Childhood
SN - 1839-5961
IS - 2
ER -