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Global Perspectives on Inclusive Teacher Education
Used to describe fully registered teachers (full registration refers to those who have completed a two year period of mentored teaching experience post qualification) who work in ECE settings and take responsibility for supporting student teachers on placement. There is usually a small remuneration involved to acknowledge the work based on an employment relationship between the ITE institution and the associate.
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The Aotearoa New Zealand Curriculum Te Whāriki as a Basis for Developing Dispositions of Inclusion: Early Childhood Student Teachers Partnering With Families as Part of Their Pedagogical Practice
Michael Gaffney (University of Otago, New Zealand) and Kate McAnelly (University of Otago, New Zealand)
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 15
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7703-4.ch011
Abstract
Over the last 20 years Aotearoa New Zealand's early childhood curriculum, Te Whāriki, has required and supported inclusive approaches to the active participation of disabled children and their families in everyday early childhood settings. The revised Te Whāriki, released in 2017, further places an onus of responsibility on teachers to resist inequity and exclusion experienced by disabled children through its focus on nurturing respectful, responsive relationships with families and honoring the knowledge parents bring with them as experts on their children. This chapter explores how Te Whāriki and initial teacher education (ITE) programs in Aotearoa New Zealand can act on each other to produce student teacher practice that is inclusive of family perspectives. Te Whāriki is a bicultural curriculum and recognizes the Crown's earlier commitment to the indigenous people of New Zealand. This also acknowledges the role of families in early childhood settings as equal partners in establishing aspirations for their children's learning.
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