HANDBOOK FOR TEACHERS AND CHILD CARE PROFESSIONALS TEACHING IN MULTICULTURAL CLASSROOMS
This handbook is one of the main products of the Erasmus plus MULTILINGUAL AND MULTICULTURAL LEARNING IN EARLY YEARS – MUTUAL project and is aimed at presenting models and approaches to the integration and inclusion of children with refugee/migrant background in the early years. It provides valuable evidence of the forms the inclusive approaches can take and the ways in which they can work. It is based on extensive practice in four countries: UK, Sweden, Greece and Czech. It addresses a range of important issues, including migration and identity, language and belonging, social and emotional competence of young children, the role of early years teacher and that training available, and the power enabling environment with visual, auditory and kinaesthetic opportunities to learn. The practices have also been successful in developing improved models of collaboration between the different actors, including parents, nurseries, educational authorities, child care professionals, teachers and sometimes policy makers. The key element of the success of the initiative has been that local solutions have been developed in order to ensure sustainability of the initiative in each of the participating countries as well as wider.
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